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"""Interface describing a user manager service."""

from zope.interface import Interface, Attribute



class IUserManager(Interface):
    """The interface of a global user manager service.

    Different user managers have different concepts of what a user is, and the
    users managed by different IUserManagers are completely independent.  This
    is how you can separate the user contexts for different domains, on a
    multiple domain system.

    There is one special roster, the null roster ('') which contains all
    IUsers in all IRosters.
    """

    def create_user(address=None, real_name=None):
        """Create and return an IUser.

        When address is given, an IAddress is also created and linked to the
        new IUser object.  If the address already exists, an
        `ExistingAddressError` is raised.  If the address exists but is
        already linked to another user, an AddressAlreadyLinkedError is
        raised.

        When real_name is given, the IUser's real_name is set to this string.
        If an IAddress is also created and linked, its real_name is set to the
        same string.
        """

    def delete_user(user):
        """Delete the given IUser."""

    def get_user(address):
        """Get the user that controls the given email address, or None.

        'address' is a text email address.
        """

    users = Attribute(
        """An iterator over all the IUsers managed by this user manager.""")

    def create_address(address, real_name=None):
        """Create and return an unlinked IAddress object.

        address is the text email address.  If real_name is not given, it
        defaults to the empty string.  If the IAddress already exists an
        ExistingAddressError is raised.
        """

    def delete_address(address):
        """Delete the given IAddress object.

        If this IAddress linked to a user, it is first unlinked before it is
        deleted.
        """

    def get_address(address):
        """Find and return an IAddress.

        'address' is a text email address.  None is returned if there is no
        registered IAddress for the given text address.
        """

    addresses = Attribute(
        """An iterator over all the IAddresses managed by this manager.""")