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package org.apache.ki.authc;

import java.util.Collection;

/**
 * An <code>AuthenticationListenerRegistrar</code> is a component that is capable of registering interested
 * {@link AuthenticationListener AuthenticationListener}s that wish to be notified during the authentication
 * process.
 * <p/>
 * This interface only guarantees that registered listeners will be notified during the authentication process.
 * How that notification occurs is implementation specific (e.g. iteration over a collection, JMS, etc.).
 * 
 * @author Les Hazlewood
 * @since 0.9
 */
public interface AuthenticationListenerRegistrar {

    /**
     * Sets the <code>AuthenticationListener</code>(s) that wish to be notified during the
     * authentication process.
     * @param listeners one or more <code>AuthenticationListener</code>s that should be notified during the
     * authentication process.
     */
    void setAuthenticationListeners(Collection<AuthenticationListener> listeners);

    /**
     * Registeres a single <code>listener</code> that wishes to be notified during the authentication process.
     * @param listener the single <code>listener</code> that wishes to be notified during the authentication process.
     */
    void add(AuthenticationListener listener);

    /**
     * Removes a single <code>listener</code> that no longer wishes to be notified during the authentication process.
     * @param listener the single <code>listener</code> that no longer wishes to be notified during the authentication process.
     * @return <code>true</code> if the listener was removed (i.e. it was previously registered), or <code>false</code>
     * if the listener was not removed (i.e. it wasn't registered yet, effectively a no-op).
     */
    boolean remove(AuthenticationListener listener);
}