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package org.jboss.security;
/**
* Interface to cache passwords retrieved from external commands.
*
* @author Peter Skopek <pskopek@redhat.com>
* @version $Revision:$
*/
public interface PasswordCache {
/**
* Checks whether the cache already contains given key. Non zero timeOut will be checked to expire cache entry.
*
* @param key
* @param timeOut
* @return
*/
public boolean contains(String key, long timeOut);
/**
* Get password from the cache.
* Returns null if there is no such key in the cache.
*
* @param key
* @return
*/
char[] getPassword(String key);
/**
* Store password to the cache.
* @param key
* @param password
*/
public void storePassword(String key, char[] password);
/**
* Reset the cache (clean whole cache and start all over again).
*/
public void reset();
}