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019package org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip;
020
021/**
022 * Supplies {@link ZipArchiveEntryRequest}.
023 *
024 * Implementations are required to support thread-handover. While an instance will not be accessed concurrently by multiple threads, it will be called by a
025 * different thread than it was created on.
026 *
027 * @since 1.13
028 */
029public interface ZipArchiveEntryRequestSupplier {
030
031    /**
032     * Supply a {@link ZipArchiveEntryRequest} to be added to a parallel archive.
033     *
034     * @return The {@link ZipArchiveEntryRequest} instance. Should never be null.
035     */
036    ZipArchiveEntryRequest get();
037}