```
public class CredentialsDescription
extends java.lang.Object
```
This class describes credential information pulled from a configuration. The data contained is organized by regular expression performed on a url. What we store for each regular expression is a Pattern, for efficiency. This structure deals with credentials as applied to a matching set of urls. It handles sequence-based credentials as well as page-based credentials - that is, session-type authentication descriptions as well as well as basic/ntlm authentication. (The two are in fact not mutually exclusive!!) For page-based credentials, a method is provided that locates the proper credential to use based on the page's url. For sequence-based credentials, a different method is provided. This reflects the fact that the underlying functionality of sequence-based credentials differs enormously from that of page-based. Generally it is a good thing to limit the number of regexps that need to be evaluated against any given url value as much as possible. For that reason I've organized this structure accordingly.

Nested Classes
Modifier and Type	Class	Description
`protected static class`	`CredentialsDescription.BasicCredential`	Basic type credentials
`protected static class`	`CredentialsDescription.CredentialsItem`	Class representing an individual credential item.
`protected static class`	`CredentialsDescription.LoginParameterIterator`	LoginParameter iterator
`protected static class`	`CredentialsDescription.NTLMCredential`	NTLM-style credentials
`protected static class`	`CredentialsDescription.SessionCredential`	Session credentials
`protected static class`	`CredentialsDescription.SessionCredentialItem`	Session credential helper class
`protected static class`	`CredentialsDescription.SessionCredentialParameter`	Session credential parameter class

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`PageCredentials`	`getPageCredential(java.lang.String url)`	Given a URL, find the right PageCredentials object to use.
`SequenceCredentials`	`getSequenceCredential(java.lang.String url)`	Given a URL, find the right SequenceCredentials object to use.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`static java.lang.String`	`_rcsid`
`protected java.util.HashMap`	`patternHash`	This is the hash that contains everything.

Class CredentialsDescription