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1   package org.eclipse.aether.repository;
2   
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21  
22  import java.util.Map;
23  
24  /**
25   * The authentication to use for accessing a protected resource. This acts basically as an extensible callback mechanism
26   * from which network operations can request authentication data like username and password when needed.
27   */
28  public interface Authentication
29  {
30  
31      /**
32       * Fills the given authentication context with the data from this authentication callback. To do so, implementors
33       * have to call {@link AuthenticationContext#put(String, Object)}. <br>
34       * <br>
35       * The {@code key} parameter supplied to this method acts merely as a hint for interactive callbacks that want to
36       * prompt the user for only that authentication data which is required. Implementations are free to ignore this
37       * parameter and put all the data they have into the authentication context at once.
38       * 
39       * @param context The authentication context to populate, must not be {@code null}.
40       * @param key The key denoting a specific piece of authentication data that is being requested for a network
41       *            operation, may be {@code null}.
42       * @param data Any (read-only) extra data in form of key value pairs that might be useful when getting the
43       *            authentication data, may be {@code null}.
44       */
45      void fill( AuthenticationContext context, String key, Map<String, String> data );
46  
47      /**
48       * Updates the given digest with data from this authentication callback. To do so, implementors have to call the
49       * {@code update()} methods in {@link AuthenticationDigest}.
50       * 
51       * @param digest The digest to update, must not be {@code null}.
52       */
53      void digest( AuthenticationDigest digest );
54  
55  }