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package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.security.visibility;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
@InterfaceAudience.Private
public interface VisibilityLabelOrdinalProvider {
/**
* @param label Not null label string
* @return The ordinal for the label. The ordinal starts from 1. Returns 0 when passed a non
* existing label.
*/
public int getLabelOrdinal(String label);
/**
* Returns the string associated with the ordinal. Not be used in MR.
* @param ordinal representing the visibility label's ordinal
* @return label associated with the string, null if not found
*/
public String getLabel(int ordinal);
}