/*
* Copyright 2009 James Abley
*
* 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.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package com.eternus.ratelimit;
/**
* Marker interface for objects passed into the {@link RateLimiter#getToken(Key)} method. Implementations should ensure
* that good implementations of {@link #equals(Object)} and {@link #hashCode()} are provided, to ensure that the
* {@link RateLimiter} implementations can portion out {@link Token}s based on differentiating the {@link Key}
* instances.
*
* @author jabley
*
*/
public interface Key {
}