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package com.netscape.certsrv.ocsp;

import com.netscape.certsrv.base.EBaseException;
import com.netscape.certsrv.base.ISubsystem;
import com.netscape.certsrv.common.NameValuePairs;
import com.netscape.cmsutil.ocsp.OCSPRequest;
import com.netscape.cmsutil.ocsp.OCSPResponse;

/**
 * This class represents the generic interface for an Online Certificate
 * Status Protocol (OCSP) store. Users can plugin different OCSP stores
 * by extending this class. For example, imagine that if a user wants to
 * use the corporate LDAP server for revocation checking, then the user
 * would merely create a new class that extends this class (e. g. -
 * "public interface ICorporateLDAPStore extends IOCSPStore").
 * <P>
 *
 * @version $Revision$, $Date$
 */
public interface IOCSPStore extends ISubsystem {
    /**
     * This method validates the information associated with the specified
     * OCSP request and returns an OCSP response.
     * <P>
     *
     * @param req an OCSP request
     * @return OCSPResponse the OCSP response associated with the specified
     *         OCSP request
     * @exception EBaseException an error associated with the inability to
     *                process the supplied OCSP request
     */
    public OCSPResponse validate(OCSPRequest req)
            throws EBaseException;

    /**
     * This method retrieves the configuration parameters associated with this
     * OCSP store.
     * <P>
     *
     * @return NameValuePairs all configuration items
     */
    public NameValuePairs getConfigParameters();

    /**
     * This method stores the configuration parameters specified by the
     * passed-in Name Value pairs object.
     * <P>
     *
     * @param pairs a name-value pair object
     * @exception EBaseException an illegal name-value pair
     */
    public void setConfigParameters(NameValuePairs pairs)
            throws EBaseException;
}