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.