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/* * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.apache.commons.vfs2; /** * The user authenticator is used to query credentials from the user. Since a UserAuthenticator * is provided with the {@link FileSystemOptions} to a {@link FileSystem} it should also implement * reasonable equals and hashCode functions if the FileSystem should be shared. */ public interface UserAuthenticator { /** * Queries the given type from the user. * @param types An array containing the user's credentials * @return The UserAuthenticationData. */ UserAuthenticationData requestAuthentication(UserAuthenticationData.Type[] types); }