Provides an interface to hold and acquire the credentials that will be used to call the service.
Methods
getCredentials()
publicabstractCredentialsgetCredentials()
Gets the credentials which will be used to call the service. If the credentials have not been
acquired yet, then they will be acquired when this function is called.
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