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package eu.gemss.components.security.token.provision;

//import uk.ac.soton.itinnovation.gemss.security.context.provider.control.ProviderController;
import eu.gemss.components.security.token.TokenDescriptor;
import eu.gemss.components.security.token.SecurityToken;
import eu.gemss.components.security.token.types.UnsupportedTokenException;
import eu.gemss.components.security.SecurityProviderConfiguration;
import eu.gemss.components.security.*;
import eu.gemss.signals.SignalHandler;

public interface SecurityTokenProvider {

    /**
     * Retrieve a list of all the token types supported by the provider
     * @return list of token descriptors
     */
    public TokenDescriptor[] getSupportedTokenList();

    /**
     * Generate an instance of the token of a particular type described
     * by the token descriptor
     * @param tokenDesc descriptor for required token
     * @return instance of the required security token
     */
    public SecurityToken generateSecurityToken(TokenDescriptor tokenDesc) throws UnsupportedTokenException, TokenProviderException, InvalidCredentialException;

    /**
     * Sets the channel where provider signals should be sent
     * @param channel
     */
    public void setSignalHandler(SignalHandler channel);

    /**
     * Set the security token provider configuration
     * @param configuration
     */
    public void setTokenProviderConfiguration(SecurityProviderConfiguration configuration);
}
