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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2014 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. and others.  All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ */
+
+package org.opendaylight.aaa.api;
+
+/**
+ * An interface for direct authentication with some given credentials.
+ *
+ * @author liemmn
+ */
+public interface CredentialAuth<T extends Credentials> {
+
+    /**
+     * Authenticate a claim with the given credentials and domain scope.
+     *
+     * @param cred
+     *            credentials
+     * @throws AuthenticationException
+     *             if failed authentication
+     * @return authenticated claim
+     */
+    Claim authenticate(T cred) throws AuthenticationException;
+}