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package org.snmp4j.cfg;

import org.snmp4j.smi.OctetString;

/**
 * An {@code EngineIdProvider} holds persistently the engine ID of a SNMP engine.
 *
 * @author Frank Fock
 * @version 3.5
 * @since 3.5
 */
public interface EngineIdProvider {

    /**
     * Gets the engine ID for the SNMP entity associated with this {@link EngineIdProvider}.
     * @param defaultEngineID
     *    the engine ID for this entity, if there is no persistently saved engine ID yet.
     * @return
     *    the persistently saved engine ID or the reference to the {@code defaultEngineID} which is then
     *    persistently stored.
     */
    OctetString getEngineId(OctetString defaultEngineID);

    /**
     * Sets the persistently stored engine ID to a new value.
     * @param engineId
     *    the new engine ID for this SNMP entity.
     */
    void resetEngineId(OctetString engineId);
}
