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1   /*
2    * Copyright 2001-2009 The Apache Software Foundation.
3    * 
4    * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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17  
18  package org.apache.juddi.v3.auth;
19  
20  import javax.xml.ws.WebServiceContext;
21  import org.apache.juddi.model.UddiEntityPublisher;
22  import org.apache.juddi.v3.error.AuthenticationException;
23  import org.apache.juddi.v3.error.FatalErrorException;
24  
25  /**
26   * Authenticator interface. Any class implementing this interface can be invoked by
27   * the AuthenticatorFactory to handle authentication of the user executing a UDDI request.
28   * 
29   * This occurs in two steps:
30   * 
31   * 1) Authenticating the user based the passed credentials
32   * 2) Identifying the user by associating either the authorizationKey or user Id with publisher information
33   * 
34   * @author Steve Viens (sviens@apache.org)
35   * @author <a href="mailto:jfaath@apache.org">Jeff Faath</a>
36   */
37  public interface Authenticator {
38  
39  	/**
40  	 * This function is called from the Security API's GetAuthToken().
41           * 
42  	 * @param authorizedName - userId of the user making the registry request
43  	 * @param cred   - some authentical creditial (i.e. a password) which can be used to 
44  	 * 		           authenticate the user.
45  	 * 
46  	 * @return The publisherID for this user
47           * @throws org.apache.juddi.v3.error.AuthenticationException
48           * @throws org.apache.juddi.v3.error.FatalErrorException
49  	 */
50  	String authenticate(String authorizedName, String cred) throws AuthenticationException, FatalErrorException;
51  	
52  	/*
53  	 * Either input parameter can be used to populate the publisher object
54  	 * 
55  	 * @param authInfo - the authorization token
56  	 * @param authorizedName - the authorized Name
57  	 * @param ctx - WebServiceContext, used for HTTP based authentication if desired (since 3.2.1)
58  	 * @return - The entity publisher
59  	 */
60  	UddiEntityPublisher identify(String authInfo, String authorizedName, WebServiceContext ctx) throws AuthenticationException, FatalErrorException;
61  }