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package jakarta.security.enterprise.credential;

/**
 * CallerOnlyCredential represents a credential that only 
 * contains a caller name and no secret of any kind.
 * 
 * 
 * This kind of credential is for internal usage within an application, e.g. 
 * for "run-as" functionality in a context where the caller is already
 * sufficiently trusted.
 *
 */
public class CallerOnlyCredential implements Credential {

    private final String caller;

    /**
     * @param caller The caller name
     */
    public CallerOnlyCredential(String caller) {
        this.caller = caller;
    }
    
    public String getCaller() {
        return caller;
    }
    
}