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/*------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright (c) 2004 Media Development Loan Fund
This file is part of the LiveSupport project.
http://livesupport.campware.org/
To report bugs, send an e-mail to bugs@campware.org
LiveSupport is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
LiveSupport is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with LiveSupport; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Author : $Author: fgerlits $
Version : $Revision: 1.1 $
Location : $Source: /home/paul/cvs2svn-livesupport/newcvsrepo/livesupport/modules/authentication/include/LiveSupport/Authentication/AuthenticationClientInterface.h,v $
------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#ifndef LiveSupport_Authentication_AuthenticationClientInterface_h
#define LiveSupport_Authentication_AuthenticationClientInterface_h
#ifndef __cplusplus
#error This is a C++ include file
#endif
/* ============================================================ include files */
#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
#include "configure.h"
#endif
#include <stdexcept>
#include "LiveSupport/Core/Ptr.h"
#include "LiveSupport/Authentication/SessionId.h"
namespace LiveSupport {
namespace Authentication {
using namespace LiveSupport::Core;
using namespace LiveSupport::Authentication;
/* ================================================================ constants */
/* =================================================================== macros */
/* =============================================================== data types */
/**
* An interface for authentication clients.
*
* @author $Author: fgerlits $
* @version $Revision: 1.1 $
*/
class AuthenticationClientInterface
{
public:
/**
* Login to the authentication server.
* Returns a new session ID; in case of an error, returns a
* null pointer.
*
* @return the new session ID
*/
virtual Ptr<SessionId>::Ref
login(const std::string &login, const std::string &password)
throw ()
= 0;
/**
* Logout from the authentication server.
*
* @param sessionId the ID of the session to end
* @return true if logged out successfully, false if not
*/
virtual const bool
logout(Ptr<SessionId>::Ref sessionId)
throw ()
= 0;
};
/* ================================================= external data structures */
/* ====================================================== function prototypes */
} // namespace Authentication
} // namespace LiveSupport
#endif // LiveSupport_Authentication_AuthenticationClientInterface_h