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<FONT color="green">019</FONT> <a name="line.19"></a>
<FONT color="green">020</FONT> package org.apache.shiro.authc;<a name="line.20"></a>
<FONT color="green">021</FONT> <a name="line.21"></a>
<FONT color="green">022</FONT> import org.apache.shiro.subject.PrincipalCollection;<a name="line.22"></a>
<FONT color="green">023</FONT> <a name="line.23"></a>
<FONT color="green">024</FONT> import java.io.Serializable;<a name="line.24"></a>
<FONT color="green">025</FONT> <a name="line.25"></a>
<FONT color="green">026</FONT> /**<a name="line.26"></a>
<FONT color="green">027</FONT> * &lt;code&gt;AuthenticationInfo&lt;/code&gt; represents a Subject's (aka user's) stored account information relevant to the<a name="line.27"></a>
<FONT color="green">028</FONT> * authentication/log-in process only.<a name="line.28"></a>
<FONT color="green">029</FONT> * &lt;p/&gt;<a name="line.29"></a>
<FONT color="green">030</FONT> * It is important to understand the difference between this interface and the<a name="line.30"></a>
<FONT color="green">031</FONT> * {@link AuthenticationToken AuthenticationToken} interface. &lt;code&gt;AuthenticationInfo&lt;/code&gt; implementations<a name="line.31"></a>
<FONT color="green">032</FONT> * represent already-verified and stored account data, whereas an &lt;code&gt;AuthenticationToken&lt;/code&gt; represents data<a name="line.32"></a>
<FONT color="green">033</FONT> * submitted for any given login attempt (which may or may not successfully match the verified and stored account<a name="line.33"></a>
<FONT color="green">034</FONT> * &lt;code&gt;AuthenticationInfo&lt;/code&gt;).<a name="line.34"></a>
<FONT color="green">035</FONT> * &lt;p/&gt;<a name="line.35"></a>
<FONT color="green">036</FONT> * Because the act of authentication (log-in) is orthogonal to authorization (access control), this interface is<a name="line.36"></a>
<FONT color="green">037</FONT> * intended to represent only the account data needed by Shiro during an authentication attempt. Shiro also<a name="line.37"></a>
<FONT color="green">038</FONT> * has a parallel {@link org.apache.shiro.authz.AuthorizationInfo AuthorizationInfo} interface for use during the<a name="line.38"></a>
<FONT color="green">039</FONT> * authorization process that references access control data such as roles and permissions.<a name="line.39"></a>
<FONT color="green">040</FONT> * &lt;p/&gt;<a name="line.40"></a>
<FONT color="green">041</FONT> * But because many if not most {@link org.apache.shiro.realm.Realm Realm}s store both sets of data for a Subject, it might be<a name="line.41"></a>
<FONT color="green">042</FONT> * convenient for a &lt;code&gt;Realm&lt;/code&gt; implementation to utilize an implementation of the {@link Account Account}<a name="line.42"></a>
<FONT color="green">043</FONT> * interface instead, which is a convenience interface that combines both &lt;code&gt;AuthenticationInfo&lt;/code&gt; and<a name="line.43"></a>
<FONT color="green">044</FONT> * &lt;code&gt;AuthorizationInfo&lt;/code&gt;. Whether you choose to implement these two interfaces separately or implement the one<a name="line.44"></a>
<FONT color="green">045</FONT> * &lt;code&gt;Account&lt;/code&gt; interface for a given &lt;code&gt;Realm&lt;/code&gt; is entirely based on your application's needs or your<a name="line.45"></a>
<FONT color="green">046</FONT> * preferences.<a name="line.46"></a>
<FONT color="green">047</FONT> * &lt;p/&gt;<a name="line.47"></a>
<FONT color="green">048</FONT> * &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pleae note:&lt;/b&gt; Since Shiro sometimes logs authentication operations, please ensure your AuthenticationInfo's<a name="line.48"></a>
<FONT color="green">049</FONT> * &lt;code&gt;toString()&lt;/code&gt; implementation does &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; print out account credentials (password, etc), as these might be viewable to<a name="line.49"></a>
<FONT color="green">050</FONT> * someone reading your logs. This is good practice anyway, and account credentials should rarely (if ever) be printed<a name="line.50"></a>
<FONT color="green">051</FONT> * out for any reason. If you're using Shiro's default implementations of this interface, they only ever print the<a name="line.51"></a>
<FONT color="green">052</FONT> * account {@link #getPrincipals() principals}, so you do not need to do anything additional.&lt;/p&gt;<a name="line.52"></a>
<FONT color="green">053</FONT> *<a name="line.53"></a>
<FONT color="green">054</FONT> * @see org.apache.shiro.authz.AuthorizationInfo AuthorizationInfo<a name="line.54"></a>
<FONT color="green">055</FONT> * @see Account<a name="line.55"></a>
<FONT color="green">056</FONT> * @since 0.9<a name="line.56"></a>
<FONT color="green">057</FONT> */<a name="line.57"></a>
<FONT color="green">058</FONT> public interface AuthenticationInfo extends Serializable {<a name="line.58"></a>
<FONT color="green">059</FONT> <a name="line.59"></a>
<FONT color="green">060</FONT> /**<a name="line.60"></a>
<FONT color="green">061</FONT> * Returns all principals associated with the corresponding Subject. Each principal is an identifying piece of<a name="line.61"></a>
<FONT color="green">062</FONT> * information useful to the application such as a username, or user id, a given name, etc - anything useful<a name="line.62"></a>
<FONT color="green">063</FONT> * to the application to identify the current &lt;code&gt;Subject&lt;/code&gt;.<a name="line.63"></a>
<FONT color="green">064</FONT> * &lt;p/&gt;<a name="line.64"></a>
<FONT color="green">065</FONT> * The returned PrincipalCollection should &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; contain any credentials used to verify principals, such<a name="line.65"></a>
<FONT color="green">066</FONT> * as passwords, private keys, etc. Those should be instead returned by {@link #getCredentials() getCredentials()}.<a name="line.66"></a>
<FONT color="green">067</FONT> *<a name="line.67"></a>
<FONT color="green">068</FONT> * @return all principals associated with the corresponding Subject.<a name="line.68"></a>
<FONT color="green">069</FONT> */<a name="line.69"></a>
<FONT color="green">070</FONT> PrincipalCollection getPrincipals();<a name="line.70"></a>
<FONT color="green">071</FONT> <a name="line.71"></a>
<FONT color="green">072</FONT> /**<a name="line.72"></a>
<FONT color="green">073</FONT> * Returns the credentials associated with the corresponding Subject. A credential verifies one or more of the<a name="line.73"></a>
<FONT color="green">074</FONT> * {@link #getPrincipals() principals} associated with the Subject, such as a password or private key. Credentials<a name="line.74"></a>
<FONT color="green">075</FONT> * are used by Shiro particularly during the authentication process to ensure that submitted credentials<a name="line.75"></a>
<FONT color="green">076</FONT> * during a login attempt match exactly the credentials here in the &lt;code&gt;AuthenticationInfo&lt;/code&gt; instance.<a name="line.76"></a>
<FONT color="green">077</FONT> *<a name="line.77"></a>
<FONT color="green">078</FONT> * @return the credentials associated with the corresponding Subject.<a name="line.78"></a>
<FONT color="green">079</FONT> */<a name="line.79"></a>
<FONT color="green">080</FONT> Object getCredentials();<a name="line.80"></a>
<FONT color="green">081</FONT> <a name="line.81"></a>
<FONT color="green">082</FONT> }<a name="line.82"></a>
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