001/* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 002 The Kiwi Toolkit - A Java Class Library 003 Copyright (C) 1998-2004 Mark A. Lindner 004 005 This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 006 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 007 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the 008 License, or (at your option) any later version. 009 010 This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 011 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 012 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 013 General Public License for more details. 014 015 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 016 along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software 017 Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 018 02111-1307, USA. 019 020 The author may be contacted at: mark_a_lindner@yahoo.com 021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 022 $Log: LoginValidator.java,v $ 023 Revision 1.6 2004/05/05 23:20:24 markl 024 comment block updates 025 026 Revision 1.5 2003/01/19 09:41:00 markl 027 Javadoc & comment header updates. 028 029 Revision 1.4 2001/03/12 07:24:47 markl 030 Javadoc cleanup. 031 032 Revision 1.3 2001/03/12 05:19:59 markl 033 Source code cleanup. 034 035 Revision 1.2 1999/01/10 03:22:17 markl 036 added GPL header & RCS tag 037 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 038*/ 039 040package kiwi.ui.dialog; 041 042/** General purpose login validation interface. 043 * 044 * @see kiwi.ui.dialog.LoginDialog 045 * 046 * @author Mark Lindner 047 */ 048 049public interface LoginValidator 050 { 051 052 /** Validate a login. Validates the user named <code>name</code> against the 053 * specified <code>password</code>. 054 * 055 * @return <code>true</code> if the validation succeeded and 056 * <code>false</code> otherwise. 057 */ 058 059 public boolean validate(String name, String password); 060 061 /** Handle cancelled validations. This method gets called when the user 062 * clicks the <i>Cancel</i> button in a <code>LoginDialog</code>, for 063 * example. 064 */ 065 066 public void validationCancelled(); 067 068 } 069 070/* end of source file */