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  package com.alibaba.nacos.ai.service.a2a.identity;
  
  /**
   * Nacos AI module A2A（Agent & AgentCard）identity Codec.
   *
   * <p>
   *     Agent and AgentCard allow user custom agent name without limit for now, but no limit means out of control and might cause un-expected behavior.
   *     So when storage in Nacos, it should be match some word limits.
   *     We need to encode and decode agent name as the identity to do storage.
   * </p>
   *
   * @author xiweng.yy
   */
  public interface AgentIdCodec {
      
      /**
       * Encode agent name to identity.
       *
       * @param agentName agent name
       * @return identity encoded from agent name
       */
      String encode(String agentName);
      
      /**
       * Encode agent name to identity for search, which means only do encode value without any prefix and suffix, used to do blur search.
       *
       * @param agentName agent name
       * @return identity encoded from agent name
       */
      String encodeForSearch(String agentName);
      
      /**
       * Decode agent id to agent name.
       *
       * @param agentId agent identity
       * @return agent name
       */
      String decode(String agentId);
  }
  