Initial revision of cocktail multiplayer networked gaming platform. (Far

from complete.)


git-svn-id: svn+ssh://src.earth.threerings.net/narya/trunk@2 542714f4-19e9-0310-aa3c-eee0fc999fb1

src/java/com/threerings/presents/net/Credentials.java

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+//
+// $Id: Credentials.java,v 1.1 2001/05/22 06:07:59 mdb Exp $
+
+package com.samskivert.cocktail.cher.net;
+
+import com.samskivert.cocktail.cher.io.TypedObject;
+import com.samskivert.cocktail.cher.io.TypedObjectFactory;
+
+/**
+ * Credentials are supplied by the client implementation and sent along to
+ * the server during the authentication process. To provide support for a
+ * variety of authentication methods, the credentials class is meant to be
+ * subclassed for the particular method (ie. username + password) in use
+ * in a given system.
+ *
+ * <p> All derived classes should provide a no argument constructor so
+ * that they can be instantiated prior to reconstruction from a data input
+ * stream.
+ */
+public abstract class Credentials extends TypedObject
+{
+    /**
+     * All credential derived classes should base their typed object code
+     * on this base value.
+     */
+    public static final short TYPE_BASE = 300;
+
+    // register our credential classes
+    static {
+        TypedObjectFactory.registerClass(UsernamePasswordCreds.TYPE,
+                                         UsernamePasswordCreds.class);
+    }
+}