Difference between revisions of "I-Card Registry API"

Revision as of 10:26, 16 October 2006

The I-Card Registry is a thin layer over a set of I-Card Providers

The I-Card Registry API has two parts:

1. An API to add an i-card, remove and i-card and iterators to walk through the list of i-cards.
2. A set of interfaces that are implemented by each I-Card Provider

I-Card Registry Interface

Iterable<ICardRef> getICards()

createICard()

deleteICard()

importICard()

exportICard()

I-Card Provider Interface

The following is a rough set of methods. We need to comb through this and decide which are required methods for the base interface (proposed name = ICardContext) and which (if any) are CardSpace-specific and should be moved to a separate sub-interface (e.g. ICardSpaceCardContext).

String getDisplayName()

String getUUID()

String getVersion()

String getXMLLanguage()

Image getImage()

String getImageMimeType()

boolean isMatch(Policy)

Iterable<String> getSupportedClaimTypes()

• List of all possible types of claims that may be returned in a token.

String getICardIssuerName()

EndpointReference getICardIssuerEndpoint()

DigitalIdentity requestDigitalIdentity(Policy, DigitalIdentity credential)

• Credential used to authenticate to the Token Issuer–-may be null if Token Issuer policy doesn’t require it

String getTimeIssued()

String getTimeExpires()

Iterable<TokenService> getTokenServices()

• endpoint references, credential hint, credential selector

getPolicy() – list of supported token types, supported claims

boolean getRequireAppliesTo()

• Is the RP identity required in the token request message?

ReleasePolicy getReleasePolicy()