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package org.apache.commons.vfs2;

/**
 * The user authenticator is used to query credentials from the user. Since a UserAuthenticator
 * is provided with the {@link FileSystemOptions} to a {@link FileSystem} it should also implement
 * reasonable equals and hashCode functions if the FileSystem should be shared.
 */
public interface UserAuthenticator
{
    /**
     * Queries the given type from the user.
     * @param types An array containing the user's credentials
     * @return The UserAuthenticationData.
     */
    UserAuthenticationData requestAuthentication(UserAuthenticationData.Type[] types);
}