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| * Copyright (c) 2003, 2004 IBM Corporation 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 |
| * |
| * Contributors: |
| * IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| *******************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.wst.internal.common.emf.utilities; |
| |
| |
| /** |
| * Represents an interface to an object which can encode and decode values. This typically involves |
| * cryptography algorithms. This interface, along with the supplied adapters provide an extension |
| * mechanism for pluggable crytography that can be used when storing and retrieving attribute |
| * values, and is used prevalently for encoding and decoding password values of mof objects. |
| */ |
| public interface EncoderDecoder { |
| /** |
| * Returns a decoded version of the value. |
| */ |
| public String decode(String value); |
| |
| /** |
| * Returns an encoded version of the value. |
| */ |
| public String encode(String value); |
| } |
