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mail-intake/mail_intake/credentials/store.py

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"""
Credential persistence abstractions for Mail Intake.
---
## Summary
This module defines the generic persistence contract used to store and
retrieve authentication credentials across Mail Intake components.
The ``CredentialStore`` abstraction establishes a strict separation
between credential *lifecycle management* and credential *storage*.
Authentication providers are responsible for acquiring, validating,
refreshing, and revoking credentials, while concrete store
implementations are responsible solely for persistence concerns.
By remaining agnostic to credential structure, serialization format,
and storage backend, this module enables multiple persistence
strategies—such as local files, in-memory caches, distributed stores,
or secrets managers—without coupling authentication logic to any
specific storage mechanism.
"""
from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
from typing import Generic, Optional, TypeVar
T = TypeVar("T")
class CredentialStore(ABC, Generic[T]):
"""
Abstract base class defining a generic persistence interface for
authentication credentials.
Notes:
**Responsibilities:**
- Provide persistent storage separating life-cycle management from storage mechanics
- Keep implementation focused only on persistence
**Constraints:**
- The store is intentionally agnostic to:
- The concrete credential type being stored
- The serialization format used to persist credentials
- The underlying storage backend or durability guarantees
"""
@abstractmethod
def load(self) -> Optional[T]:
"""
Load previously persisted credentials.
Returns:
Optional[T]:
An instance of type ``T`` if credentials are available and
loadable; otherwise ``None``.
Notes:
**Guarantees:**
- Implementations should return ``None`` when no credentials are present or when stored credentials cannot be successfully decoded or deserialized
- The store must not attempt to validate, refresh, or otherwise interpret the returned credentials
"""
@abstractmethod
def save(self, credentials: T) -> None:
"""
Persist credentials to the underlying storage backend.
Args:
credentials (T):
The credential object to persist.
Notes:
**Lifecycle:**
- This method is invoked when credentials are newly obtained or have been refreshed and are known to be valid at the time of persistence
**Responsibilities:**
- Ensuring durability appropriate to the deployment context
- Applying encryption or access controls where required
- Overwriting any previously stored credentials
"""
@abstractmethod
def clear(self) -> None:
"""
Remove any persisted credentials from the store.
Notes:
**Lifecycle:**
- This method is called when credentials are known to be invalid, revoked, corrupted, or otherwise unusable
- Must ensure that no stale authentication material remains accessible
**Guarantees:**
- Implementations should treat this operation as idempotent
"""