using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Enyim.Caching.Configuration
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Defines an interface for configuring the authentication paramaters the <see cref="T:MemcachedClient"/>.
	/// </summary>
	public interface IAuthenticationConfiguration
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Gets or sets the type of the <see cref="T:Enyim.Caching.Memcached.IAuthenticationProvider"/> which will be used authehticate the connections to the Memcached nodes.
		/// </summary>
		Type Type { get; set; }

		/// <summary>
		/// Gets or sets the parameters passed to the authenticator instance.
		/// </summary>
		Dictionary<string, object> Parameters { get; }
	}
}

#region [ License information          ]
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#endregion
