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Java APIs to validate and request VOMS attribute certificates

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/**
 * Copyright (c) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, 2006-2014.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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package org.italiangrid.voms.ac;

import java.util.List;

import org.italiangrid.voms.VOMSAttribute;

/**
 * A strategy to select the set of relevant and appliable VOMS attributes from a
 * set of parsed VOMS attribute certificates.
 * 
 * This strategy is responsible of creating the {@link VOMSAttribute} objects
 * which represents the authorizative VOMS authorization information.
 * 
 * @author Andrea Ceccanti
 *
 */
public interface VOMSAttributesNormalizationStrategy {

  /**
   * Returns the normalized view of VOMS Authorization information starting from
   * a list of VOMS Attribute certificates.
   * 
   * @param acs
   *          a list of {@link ACParsingContext} objects
   *          
   * @return a possibly empty list {@link VOMSAttribute} object
   */
  public List normalizeAttributes(List acs);
}