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package com.datastax.driver.core;

import com.datastax.driver.core.exceptions.AuthenticationException;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;

/**
 * Provides {@link Authenticator} instances for use when connecting to Cassandra nodes.
 *
 * See {@link PlainTextAuthProvider} for an implementation which uses SASL PLAIN mechanism to
 * authenticate using username/password strings
 */
public interface AuthProvider {

  /**
   * A provider that provides no authentication capability.
   *
   * 
This is only useful as a placeholder when no authentication is to be used.
   */
  AuthProvider NONE = new ExtendedAuthProvider.NoAuthProvider();

  /**
   * The {@code Authenticator} to use when connecting to {@code host}
   *
   * @param host the Cassandra host to connect to.
   * @param authenticator the configured authenticator on the host.
   * @return The authentication implementation to use.
   */
  public Authenticator newAuthenticator(InetSocketAddress host, String authenticator)
      throws AuthenticationException;

  /**
   * Dummy Authenticator that accounts for DSE authentication configured with transitional mode.
   *
   * In this situation, the client is allowed to connect without authentication, but DSE would
   * still send an AUTHENTICATE response. This Authenticator handles this situation by sending back
   * a dummy credential.
   */
  class TransitionalModePlainTextAuthenticator
      extends PlainTextAuthProvider.PlainTextAuthenticator {

    public TransitionalModePlainTextAuthenticator() {
      super("", "");
    }
  }
}