All token services used in the GateIn 3.2 authentication must be implemented by subclassing an AbstractTokenService abstract class. The following AbstractTokenService methods represent the contract between authentication runtime, and a token service implementation.

        public Token getToken(String id) throws PathNotFoundException, RepositoryException;

        public Token deleteToken(String id) throws PathNotFoundException, RepositoryException;

        public String[] getAllTokens();

        public long getNumberTokens() throws Exception;

        public String createToken(Credentials credentials) throws IllegalArgumentException,NullPointerException;

        public Credentials validateToken(String tokenKey, boolean remove) throws NullPointerException;