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<p>A provider for performing authentication to a service.</p>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_JmGV"id="properties">Properties<ahref="#properties"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to Properties"title="Direct link to Properties"></a></h2>
<h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_JmGV"id="ondidchangesessions">onDidChangeSessions<ahref="#ondidchangesessions"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to onDidChangeSessions"title="Direct link to onDidChangeSessions"></a></h3>
<p>An <ahref="#Event">event</a> which fires when the array of sessions has changed, or data
within a session has changed.</p>
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<h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_JmGV"id="createsession">createSession()<ahref="#createsession"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to createSession()"title="Direct link to createSession()"></a></h3>
<p>If login is successful, the onDidChangeSessions event should be fired.</p>
<p>If login fails, a rejected promise should be returned.</p>
<p>If the provider has specified that it does not support multiple accounts,
then this should never be called if there is already an existing session matching these
scopes.</p>
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<p>A list of scopes, permissions, that the new session should be created with.</p>
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<p>A promise that resolves to an authentication session.</p>
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<h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_JmGV"id="getsessions">getSessions()<ahref="#getsessions"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to getSessions()"title="Direct link to getSessions()"></a></h3>
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<p>An optional list of scopes. If provided, the sessions returned should match
these permissions, otherwise all sessions should be returned.</p>
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<p>A promise that resolves to an array of authentication sessions.</p>
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<h3class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_JmGV"id="removesession">removeSession()<ahref="#removesession"class="hash-link"aria-label="Direct link to removeSession()"title="Direct link to removeSession()"></a></h3>
<p>Removes the session corresponding to session id.</p>
<p>If the removal is successful, the onDidChangeSessions event should be fired.</p>
<p>If a session cannot be removed, the provider should reject with an error message.</p>
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