Credentials

All Known Implementing Classes:

BearerToken, KerberosCredentials, NTCredentials, UsernamePasswordCredentials
```
public interface Credentials
```
This interface represents a set of credentials consisting of a security principal and a secret (password) that can be used to establish user identity

Since:

4.0

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Deprecated Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`char[]`	`getPassword()`	Deprecated. Use specific credentials class that represent a username / password set of a security token.
`java.security.Principal`	`getUserPrincipal()`

- Method Detail
  - getUserPrincipal
```
java.security.Principal getUserPrincipal()
```
  - getPassword
```
@Deprecated
char[] getPassword()
```
    Deprecated.
    Use specific credentials class that represent a username / password set of a security token.