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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.arrow.flight.auth2;
+
+import org.apache.arrow.flight.CallHeaders;
+import org.apache.arrow.flight.grpc.CredentialCallOption;
+
+/**
+ * Interface for client side header parsing and conversion to CredentialCallOption.
+ */
+public interface ClientHeaderHandler {
+ /**
+ * Parses the incoming headers and converts them into a CredentialCallOption.
+ * @param incomingHeaders Incoming headers to parse.
+ * @return An instance of CredentialCallOption.
+ */
+ CredentialCallOption getCredentialCallOptionFromIncomingHeaders(CallHeaders incomingHeaders);
+
+ /**
+ * An client header handler that does nothing.
+ */
+ ClientHeaderHandler NO_OP = new ClientHeaderHandler() {
+ @Override
+ public CredentialCallOption getCredentialCallOptionFromIncomingHeaders(CallHeaders incomingHeaders) {
+ return null;
+ }
+ };
+}