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from zope.interface import Interface

class IEncryptedPassword(Interface):
  """
  Encrypted Password interface specification

  Documents which implement IEncryptedPassword can have get set and check
  encrypted password.
  """

  def checkPassword(value):
    """
    Check the password, usefull when changing password
    """

  def setEncodedPassword(value, format='default'):
    """
      Set an already encoded password.
    """

  def setPassword(value) :
    """
      Set the password, only if the password is not empty.
    """

  def getPassword(*args, **kw):
    """
      Retrieve password in desired format.

      getPassword([default], [format='default'])

      default (anything)
        Value to return if no password is set on context.
        Default: None
      format (string)
        String defining the format in which the password is expected.
        If passowrd is not available in that format, KeyError will be
        raised.
        Default: 'default'
    """