PIDGenerator.java

/**
 * Copyright 2008 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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 */
package edu.unc.lib.dl.pidgen;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

import edu.unc.lib.dl.fedora.PID;

public interface PIDGenerator {

	/**
	 * Get the next unique PID.
	 * 
	 * @throws IOException
	 *            if pid generation failed, for any reason.
	 */
	public PID getNextPID();

	public List<PID> getNextPIDs(int howMany);

}