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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.qpid.server.model;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import javax.security.auth.login.AccountNotFoundException;
+
+public interface PasswordCredentialManagingAuthenticationProvider extends AuthenticationProvider
+{
+    boolean createUser(String username, String password, Map<String, String> attributes);
+
+    void deleteUser(String user) throws AccountNotFoundException;
+
+    void setPassword(String username, String password) throws AccountNotFoundException;
+
+    Map<String, Map<String,String>>  getUsers();
+
+    /**
+     * Refreshes the cache of user and password data from the underlying storage.
+     *
+     * If there is a failure whilst reloading the data, the implementation must
+     * throw an {@link IOException} and revert to using the previous cached username
+     * and password data.  In this way, the broker will remain usable.
+     */
+    void reload() throws IOException;
+}