Is the Sokhotski-Plemelj limit representation of the Dirac delta function unique in a sense?

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Suppose I know that a function is analytic in the upper half plane and that for real $x$ we have $\lim_{\epsilon \to 0^+} \operatorname{Im} f(x+ i \epsilon) = \delta(x)$. Can I conclude that $f(z) = \frac{-1}{\pi z}$? Is the Sokhotski-Plemelj formula unique in this sense?

(Context: I am reading a physics text on scattering theory and they appear to me to be using uniqueness in this sense.)