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package org.apache.shindig.auth;

import java.util.Map;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

/**
 * Implements a specific authentication mechanism and produces a SecurityToken when authentication
 * is successful.
 */
public interface AuthenticationHandler {

  /**
   * Some authentication handlers need to read the request body to perform verification. Because
   * the servlet stream can only be read once, making the content unavailable to the receiving
   * servlet. An authentication handler that fully reads the body should stash the raw content
   * byte array using request.setAttribute(STASHED_BODY, )
   */
  public static final String STASHED_BODY = "STASHED_BODY";

  /**
   * @return The name of the authentication handler. This value is bound to the security token
   * and can be used to determine the authentication mechanism by which the security token was
   * created. The value is expected to be one of the values in AuthenticationMode but string
   * is used here to allow containers to have custom authentication modes
   */
  String getName();

  /**
   * Produce a security token extracted from the HTTP request.
   *
   * @param request The request to extract a token from.
   * @return A valid security token for the request, or null if it wasn't possible to authenticate.
   */
  SecurityToken getSecurityTokenFromRequest(HttpServletRequest request)
      throws InvalidAuthenticationException;

    /**
     * Return a String to be used for a WWW-Authenticate header. This will be called if the
     * call to getSecurityTokenFromRequest returns null.
     *
     * If non-null/non-blank it will be added to the Response.
     * See Section 6.1.3 of the Portable Contacts Specification
     *
     * @param realm the name of the realm to use for the authenticate header
     * @return Header value for a WWW-Authenticate Header
     */
  String getWWWAuthenticateHeader(String realm);

  /**
   * An exception thrown by an AuthenticationHandler in the situation where
   * a malformed credential or token is passed. A handler which throws this exception
   * is required to include the appropriate error state in the servlet response
   */
  public static final class InvalidAuthenticationException extends Exception {

     private Map additionalHeaders;
     private String redirect;

     /**
      * @param message Message to output in error response
      * @param cause Underlying exception
      */
     public InvalidAuthenticationException(String message, Throwable cause) {
       this(message, cause, null, null);
     }

     /**
      * @param message Message to output in error response
      * @param cause Underlying exception
      * @param additionalHeaders Headers to add to error response
      * @param redirect URL to redirect to on error
      */
     public InvalidAuthenticationException(String message, Throwable cause,
         Map additionalHeaders, String redirect) {
       super(message, cause);
       this.additionalHeaders = additionalHeaders;
       this.redirect = redirect;
     }

     public Map getAdditionalHeaders() {
       return additionalHeaders;
     }

     public String getRedirect() {
       return redirect;
     }
   }
}