org.apache.http.client
Interface CredentialsProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:
BasicCredentialsProvider, SystemDefaultCredentialsProvider

public interface CredentialsProvider

Abstract credentials provider that maintains a collection of user credentials.

Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed from multiple threads.

Since:
4.0

Method Summary
 void clear()
          Clears all credentials.
 Credentials getCredentials(AuthScope authscope)
          Get the credentials for the given authentication scope.
 void setCredentials(AuthScope authscope, Credentials credentials)
          Sets the credentials for the given authentication scope.
 

Method Detail

setCredentials

void setCredentials(AuthScope authscope,
                    Credentials credentials)
Sets the credentials for the given authentication scope. Any previous credentials for the given scope will be overwritten.

Parameters:
authscope - the authentication scope
credentials - the authentication credentials for the given scope.
See Also:
getCredentials(AuthScope)

getCredentials

Credentials getCredentials(AuthScope authscope)
Get the credentials for the given authentication scope.

Parameters:
authscope - the authentication scope
Returns:
the credentials
See Also:
setCredentials(AuthScope, Credentials)

clear

void clear()
Clears all credentials.



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