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package org.apache.geode.distributed.internal.membership.gms.api;

import java.util.Comparator;


/**
 * A MemberIdentifierFactory is provided when building a membership service. It must provide
 * implementations of the MemberIdentifier interface for use as identifiers in the membership
 * service. For Geode this implementation is InternalDistributedMember.<br>
 * See {@link MembershipBuilder} - where you inject your factory into GMS
 */
public interface MemberIdentifierFactory {
  /**
   * Create a new identifier instance
   */
  MemberIdentifier create(MemberData memberInfo);

  /**
   * Create a Comparator for the implementation of identifiers provided by this factory
   */
  Comparator<MemberIdentifier> getComparator();
}