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package com.amazonaws.auth;
/**
* A container of data pertinent to a single provider, and will handle most of
* the interactions with said provider and the client. Note, this will only
* implement token and identityId interactions. It should not be used for
* implementing a custom IdentityProvider. Instead, extend
* AbstractCognitoIdentityProvider.
*/
public interface AWSIdentityProvider {
/**
* Get the token from the relevant provider
*
* @return the token which was retrieved from the provider
*/
public String getToken();
/**
* To be used to call the provider back end to get a token and identityId.
* Once that has returned, a call to the superclass' update(String, Token)
* method should be called
*
* @return token returns the token that was updated in the refresh
*/
public String refresh();
}