broker/src/org/apache/qpid/server/security/auth/PrincipalDatabase.java


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/*
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2006 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 * Licensed 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.security.auth;

import javax.security.auth.callback.PasswordCallback;
import javax.security.auth.login.AccountNotFoundException;
import java.security.Principal;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Represents a "user database" which is really a way of storing principals (i.e. usernames) and
 * passwords.
 */
public interface PrincipalDatabase
{
    /**
     * Set the password for a given principal in the specified callback. This is used for certain
     * SASL providers. The user database implementation should look up the password in any way it
     * chooses and set it in the callback by calling its setPassword method.
     * @param principal the principal
     * @param callback the password callback that wants to receive the password
     * @throws AccountNotFoundException if the account for specified principal could not be found
     * @throws IOException if there was an error looking up the principal
     */
    void setPassword(Principal principal, PasswordCallback callback)
            throws IOException, AccountNotFoundException;
}