/** * 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.wss4j.dom.validate; import org.apache.wss4j.common.ext.WSSecurityException; import org.apache.wss4j.dom.handler.RequestData; /** * This interface describes a pluggable way of validating credentials that have been extracted * by the processors. */ public interface Validator { /** * Validate the credential argument. This method returns a Credential instance that * represents the validated credential. This instance can be the same as the instance * that was validated, or it can represent some transformation of the initial Credential * instance. * @param credential the Credential to be validated * @param data the RequestData associated with the request * @return a validated Credential * @throws WSSecurityException on a failed validation */ Credential validate(Credential credential, RequestData data) throws WSSecurityException; }