[#BloombergLP-bdlma-Deleter]
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Provide a protocol (or pure interface) for a thread‐safe object deleter.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlma_deleter.h>`

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template<class TYPE>
class Deleter;
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== Member Functions

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlma/Deleter/2destructor.adoc[`~Deleter`] [.small]#[destructor]# [.small]#[virtual]#
| Destroy this object deleter.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlma/Deleter/deleteObject.adoc[`deleteObject`]  [.small]#[virtual]#
| Destroy the specified `instance` based on its static type and return its memory footprint to the appropriate memory manager. Note that a particular implementation is allowed to destroy this deleter itself.
|===


== Derived Classes

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| Name| Description
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlma/DefaultDeleter.adoc[`DefaultDeleter`] 
| This `class` provides a default concrete implementation of the `Deleter` protocol. Instances of `DefaultDeleter<TYPE>` either use an allocator optionally supplied at construction, or the currently installed default allocator if an allocator is not provided.
| xref:BloombergLP/bdlma/Factory.adoc[`Factory`] 
| This `class` provides a protocol (or pure interface) for a thread‐safe object creator and deleter. It extends the `Deleter` protocol with the addition of a `createObject` method.
|===


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