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package org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.authc.support;
import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.security.authc.Realm;
/**
* This interface allows a {@link Realm} to indicate that it supports caching user credentials
* and expose the ability to clear the cache for a given String identifier or all of the cache
*/
public interface CachingRealm {
/**
* @return The name of this realm.
*/
String name();
/**
* Expires a single user from the cache identified by the String agument
* @param username the identifier of the user to be cleared
*/
void expire(String username);
/**
* Expires all of the data that has been cached in this realm
*/
void expireAll();
}