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+/*  AuthOps -- Authentication interface class
+
+  Digital Image Library servlet components
+
+  Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Robert Casties (robcast@mail.berlios.de)
+
+  This program is free software; you can redistribute  it and/or modify it
+  under  the terms of  the GNU General  Public License as published by the
+  Free Software Foundation;  either version 2 of the  License, or (at your
+  option) any later version.
+   
+  Please read license.txt for the full details. A copy of the GPL
+  may be found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lgpl.html
+
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+
+*/
+
+package digilib.auth;
+
+
+import java.io.*;
+import java.util.*;
+import javax.servlet.http.*;
+
+public interface AuthOps {
+
+  /**
+   *  check if the request must be authorized to access filepath
+   */
+  public boolean isAuthRequired(String filepath, HttpServletRequest request) throws AuthOpException;
+
+  /**
+   *  check if the request is allowed to access filepath
+   */
+  public boolean isAuthorized(String filepath, HttpServletRequest request) throws AuthOpException;
+
+  /**
+   *  return a list of authorization roles needed for request
+   *  to access the specified path
+   *    (does not look at request address for now)
+   */
+  public List rolesForPath(String filepath, HttpServletRequest request) throws AuthOpException;
+
+  /**
+   * check request authorization against a list of roles
+   */
+  public boolean isRoleAuthorized(List roles, HttpServletRequest request);
+
+}