org.deegree.security
Class AbstractAuthentication

java.lang.Object
  org.deegree.security.AbstractAuthentication

Direct Known Subclasses:

IPAddressAuthentication, UserPasswordAuthentication, UserPrincipalAuthentication, WASAuthentication

public abstract class AbstractAuthentication
extends Object

Version:

$Revision: 6251 $, $Date: 2007-03-19 16:59:28 +0100 (Mo, 19 Mrz 2007) $

Author:

Andreas Poth, last edited by: $Author: poth $

Field Summary

protected Map<String,String>

initParams

Constructor Summary

AbstractAuthentication(String authenticationName, Map<String,String> initParams)

Method Summary

abstract User	authenticate(Map<String,String> params) authenticates a user and returns an instance of User if authentication has been successfull.
String	getAuthenticationName() returns the name of the authentication method implemented by a class

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

initParams

protected Map<String,String> initParams

Constructor Detail

AbstractAuthentication

public AbstractAuthentication(String authenticationName,
                              Map<String,String> initParams)

Parameters:

authenticationName -

initParams -

Method Detail

getAuthenticationName

public String getAuthenticationName()

returns the name of the authentication method implemented by a class

Returns:

name of the authentication method implemented by a class

authenticate

public abstract User authenticate(Map<String,String> params)
                           throws WrongCredentialsException

authenticates a user and returns an instance of User if authentication has been successfull. Otherwise a WrongCredentialsException will be thrown.

Parameters:

params - authentication parameters

Returns:

an instance of User

Throws:

WrongCredentialsException - if authentication was not successfull