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019    package org.apache.shiro.jndi;
020    
021    import javax.naming.Context;
022    import javax.naming.NamingException;
023    
024    /**
025     * Callback interface to be implemented by classes that need to perform an
026     * operation (such as a lookup) in a JNDI context. This callback approach
027     * is valuable in simplifying error handling, which is performed by the
028     * JndiTemplate class. This is a similar to JdbcTemplate's approach.
029     *
030     * <p>Note that there is hardly any need to implement this callback
031     * interface, as JndiTemplate provides all usual JNDI operations via
032     * convenience methods.
033     *
034     * <p>Note that this interface is an exact copy of the Spring Framework's identically named interface from
035     * their 2.5.4 distribution - we didn't want to re-invent the wheel, but not require a full dependency on the
036     * Spring framework, nor does Spring make available only its JNDI classes in a small jar, or we would have used that.
037     * Since Shiro is also Apache 2.0 licensed, all regular licenses and conditions and authors have remained in tact.
038     *
039     * @author Rod Johnson
040     * @see JndiTemplate
041     */
042    public interface JndiCallback {
043    
044        /**
045         * Do something with the given JNDI context.
046         * Implementations don't need to worry about error handling
047         * or cleanup, as the JndiTemplate class will handle this.
048         *
049         * @param ctx the current JNDI context
050         * @return a result object, or <code>null</code>
051         * @throws NamingException if thrown by JNDI methods
052         */
053        Object doInContext(Context ctx) throws NamingException;
054    
055    }