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package org.jivesoftware.openfire.auth;

import org.jivesoftware.openfire.user.UserNotFoundException;

/**
 * Provider interface for authentication. Users that wish to integrate with
 * their own authentication system must implement this class and then register
 * the implementation with Openfire in the <tt>openfire.xml</tt>
 * file. An entry in that file would look like the following:
 *
 * <pre>
 *   &lt;provider&gt;
 *     &lt;auth&gt;
 *       &lt;className&gt;com.foo.auth.CustomAuthProvider&lt;/className&gt;
 *     &lt;/auth&gt;
 *   &lt;/provider&gt;</pre>
 *
 * @author Matt Tucker
 */
public interface AuthProvider {

    /**
     * Returns true if this AuthProvider supports authentication using plain-text
     * passwords according to JEP--0078. Plain text authentication is not secure
     * and should generally only be used for a TLS/SSL connection.
     *
     * @return true if plain text password authentication is supported by
     *      this AuthProvider.
     */
    boolean isPlainSupported();

    /**
     * Returns true if this AuthProvider supports digest authentication
     * according to JEP-0078.
     *
     * @return true if digest authentication is supported by this
     *      AuthProvider.
     */
    boolean isDigestSupported();

    /**
     * Returns if the username and password are valid; otherwise this
     * method throws an UnauthorizedException.<p>
     *
     * If {@link #isPlainSupported()} returns false, this method should
     * throw an UnsupportedOperationException.
     *
     * @param username the username or full JID.
     * @param password the passwordl
     * @throws UnauthorizedException if the username and password do
     *      not match any existing user.
     * @throws ConnectionException it there is a problem connecting to user and group sytem
     * @throws InternalUnauthenticatedException if there is a problem authentication Openfire iteself into the user and group system
     */
    void authenticate(String username, String password) throws UnauthorizedException,
            ConnectionException, InternalUnauthenticatedException;

    /**
     * Returns if the username, token, and digest are valid; otherwise this
     * method throws an UnauthorizedException.<p>
     *
     * If {@link #isDigestSupported()} returns false, this method should
     * throw an UnsupportedOperationException.
     *
     * @param username the username or full JID.
     * @param token the token that was used with plain-text password to
     *      generate the digest.
     * @param digest the digest generated from plain-text password and unique token.
     * @throws UnauthorizedException if the username and password
     *      do not match any existing user.
     * @throws ConnectionException it there is a problem connecting to user and group sytem
     * @throws InternalUnauthenticatedException if there is a problem authentication Openfire iteself into the user and group system
     */
    void authenticate(String username, String token, String digest)
            throws UnauthorizedException, ConnectionException, InternalUnauthenticatedException;

    /**
     * Returns the user's password. This method should throw an UnsupportedOperationException
     * if this operation is not supported by the backend user store.
     *
     * @param username the username of the user.
     * @return the user's password.
     * @throws UserNotFoundException if the given user's password could not be loaded.
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if the provider does not
     *      support the operation (this is an optional operation).
     */
    public String getPassword(String username) throws UserNotFoundException,
            UnsupportedOperationException;

    /**
     * Sets the users's password. This method should throw an UnsupportedOperationException
     * if this operation is not supported by the backend user store.
     *
     * @param username the username of the user.
     * @param password the new plaintext password for the user.
     * @throws UserNotFoundException if the given user could not be loaded.
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if the provider does not
     *      support the operation (this is an optional operation).
     */
    public void setPassword(String username, String password)
            throws UserNotFoundException, UnsupportedOperationException;

    /**
     * Returns true if this UserProvider is able to retrieve user passwords from
     * the backend user store. If this operation is not supported then {@link #getPassword(String)}
     * will throw an {@link UnsupportedOperationException} if invoked.
     *
     * @return true if this UserProvider is able to retrieve user passwords from the
     *         backend user store.
     */
    public boolean supportsPasswordRetrieval();
}
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