com.threerings.presents.net.Credentials Maven / Gradle / Ivy
//
// $Id: Credentials.java 6482 2011-02-07 23:15:15Z jamie $
//
// Narya library - tools for developing networked games
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package com.threerings.presents.net;
import com.threerings.io.Streamable;
/**
* Credentials are supplied by the client implementation and sent along to the server during the
* authentication process. To provide support for a variety of authentication methods, the
* credentials class is meant to be subclassed for the particular method (ie. password, auth
* digest, etc.) in use in a given system.
*
* All derived classes should provide a no argument constructor so that they can be
* instantiated prior to reconstruction from a data input stream.
*/
public abstract class Credentials implements Streamable
{
/**
* Implemented by credentials that provide a machine identifier.
*/
public interface HasMachineIdent
{
/**
* Gets the machine identifier associated with the submitting user's machine.
*/
String getMachineIdent ();
}
/**
* Implemented by credentials that provide a language.
*/
public interface HasLanguage
{
/**
* Gets the language selected by the submitting user.
*/
String getLanguage ();
}
/**
* Returns a string to use in a hash on the datagram contents to authenticate client datagrams.
*/
public String getDatagramSecret ()
{
return "";
}
}