/*
  Copyright (C) 2000-2005 SKYRIX Software AG

  This file is part of SOPE.

  SOPE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
  the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the
  Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any
  later version.

  SOPE 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 Lesser General Public
  License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License along with SOPE; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the
  Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
  02111-1307, USA.
*/

#ifndef __SoObjects_SoHTTPAuthenticator_H__
#define __SoObjects_SoHTTPAuthenticator_H__

#import <Foundation/NSObject.h>

/*
  SoHTTPAuthenticator

  SoHTTPAuthenticator is an abstract base class for HTTP (basic 
  authentication) based user databases. It deals with all the encoding,
  decoding of credentials.
  In the simplest case you only need to override -checkLogin:password:
  to ensure login/password combinations.
*/

@class NSString, NSException, NSArray;
@class WOContext, WOResponse;
@class SoUser;

@interface SoHTTPAuthenticator : NSObject
{
}

/* password checker (override in subclasses !) */

- (BOOL)checkLogin:(NSString *)_login password:(NSString *)_pwd;

/* HTTP basic authentication */

- (NSString *)authRealm;
- (WOResponse *)preprocessCredentialsInContext:(WOContext *)_ctx;

- (NSString *)checkCredentials:(NSString *)_creds;
- (NSString *)checkCredentialsInContext:(WOContext *)_ctx;
- (NSArray *)parseCredentials:(NSString *)_creds;
+ (NSArray *)parseCredentials:(NSString *)_creds;

/* user management */

- (SoUser *)userInContext:(WOContext *)_ctx;
- (NSArray *)rolesForLogin:(NSString *)_login;

/* render auth exceptions of SoSecurityManager */

- (BOOL)renderException:(NSException *)_e inContext:(WOContext *)_ctx;

@end

#endif /* __SoObjects_SoHTTPAuthenticator_H__ */
