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package org.apache.directory.api.ldap.codec.api;


/**
 * An interface used to abstract the means to detect whether or not an attribute
 * identifier/descriptor represents a binary attributeType.
 */
public interface BinaryAttributeDetector
{
    /**
     * Returns true if the attribute specified is not human readible.
     *
     * @param attributeId the identifier/descriptor for the attribute to be checked.
     * @return true if the attribute specified is not human readible, false otherwise
     */
    boolean isBinary( String attributeId );
}