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package org.apache.xml.security.stax.securityToken;

import org.apache.xml.security.exceptions.XMLSecurityException;

/**
 * A SecurityTokenProvider is a object which provides a Token for cryptographic operations
 *
 * @author $Author: giger $
 * @version $Revision: 1463132 $ $Date: 2013-04-01 14:27:45 +0100 (Mon, 01 Apr 2013) $
 */
public interface SecurityTokenProvider<T> {

    /**
     * Returns the represented SecurityToken of this object
     *
     * @return The SecurityToken
     * @throws XMLSecurityException if the token couldn't be loaded
     */
    T getSecurityToken() throws XMLSecurityException;

    String getId();
}
