source: trunk/src/gcc/libjava/java/security/KeyStoreSpi.java@ 192

/* KeyStoreSpi.java --- Key Store Service Provider Interface
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package java.security;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.security.cert.CertificateException;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Enumeration;

/**
   KeyStoreSpi is the Service Provider Interface (SPI) for the 
   KeyStore class. This is the interface for providers to 
   supply to implement a keystore for a particular keystore 
   type.

   @since JDK 1.2
   @author Mark Benvenuto
 */
public abstract class KeyStoreSpi
{
  /**
     Constructs a new KeyStoreSpi
   */
  public KeyStoreSpi()
  {
  }

  /**
     Returns the key associated with given alias using the 
     supplied password.

     @param alias an alias for the key to get
     @param password password to access key with

     @return the requested key, or null otherwise

     @throws NoSuchAlgorithmException if there is no algorithm
     for recovering the key
     @throws UnrecoverableKeyException key cannot be reocovered
     (wrong password).
   */
  public abstract Key engineGetKey(String alias, char[]password)
    throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, UnrecoverableKeyException;

  /**
     Gets a Certificate chain for the specified alias.

     @param alias the alias name

     @return a chain of Certificates ( ordered from the user's 
     certificate to the Certificate Authority's ) or 
     null if the alias does not exist or there is no
     certificate chain for the alias ( the alias refers
     to a trusted certificate entry or there is no entry).
   */
  public abstract java.security.cert.
    Certificate[] engineGetCertificateChain(String alias);


  /**
     Gets a Certificate for the specified alias.

     If there is a trusted certificate entry then that is returned.
     it there is a key entry with a certificate chain then the
     first certificate is return or else null.

     @param alias the alias name

     @return a Certificate or null if the alias does not exist 
     or there is no certificate for the alias
   */
  public abstract java.security.cert.
    Certificate engineGetCertificate(String alias);

  /**
     Gets entry creation date for the specified alias.

     @param alias the alias name

     @returns the entry creation date or null
   */
  public abstract Date engineGetCreationDate(String alias);

  /**
     Assign the key to the alias in the keystore, protecting it
     with the given password. It will overwrite an existing 
     entry and if the key is a PrivateKey, also add the 
     certificate chain representing the corresponding public key.

     @param alias the alias name
     @param key the key to add
     @password the password to protect with
     @param chain the certificate chain for the corresponding
     public key

     @throws KeyStoreException if it fails
   */
  public abstract void engineSetKeyEntry(String alias, Key key,
                                         char[]password,
                                         java.security.cert.
                                         Certificate[]chain) throws
    KeyStoreException;