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package org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip;

/**
 * Supplies {@link ZipArchiveEntryRequest}.
 *
 * Implementations are required to support thread-handover. While an instance will
 * not be accessed concurrently by multiple threads, it will be called by
 * a different thread than it was created on.
 *
 * @since 1.13
 */
public interface ZipArchiveEntryRequestSupplier {

    /**
     * Supply a {@link ZipArchiveEntryRequest} to be added to a parallel archive.
     * @return The {@link ZipArchiveEntryRequest} instance. Should never be null.
     */
    ZipArchiveEntryRequest get();
}
