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017package org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip;
018
019/**
020 * Supplies {@link ZipArchiveEntryRequest}.
021 *
022 * Implementations are required to support thread-handover. While an instance will not be accessed concurrently by multiple threads, it will be called by a
023 * different thread than it was created on.
024 *
025 * @since 1.13
026 */
027public interface ZipArchiveEntryRequestSupplier {
028
029    /**
030     * Supply a {@link ZipArchiveEntryRequest} to be added to a parallel archive.
031     *
032     * @return The {@link ZipArchiveEntryRequest} instance. Should never be null.
033     */
034    ZipArchiveEntryRequest get();
035}