Account (Starfish - Developer Toolkit for data ecosystems 0.7.1 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

AAccount, AEVMAccount, RemoteAccount, SquidAccount
```
public interface Account
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Interface representing an Account with one or more agents in the Ocean ecosystem

Version:

0.5

Author:

Tom

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Map<String,Object>`	`getCredentials()`	Gets the credentials stored for this Account.
`String`	`getID()`	Gets the ID for an Account.

- Method Detail
  - getID
```
String getID()
```
    Gets the ID for an Account.
    The account identifier used is defined by the agent implementation, however typically this would be a unique user name or ID for this agent.
    
    Returns:
    
    Account identifier
  - getCredentials
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Map<String,Object> getCredentials()
```
    Gets the credentials stored for this Account.
    Required credentials are defined by the agent implementation, but would typically include things like user name, password etc.
    This map is immutable and can be used by Agent to get the credential
    
    Returns:
    
    A credential map for this account