org.deegree.security
Class AbstractAuthentication

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

Direct Known Subclasses:

IPAddressAuthentication, UserPasswordAuthentication, UserPrincipalAuthentication, WASAuthentication

public abstract class AbstractAuthentication
extends java.lang.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 java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String>

initParams

Constructor Summary

AbstractAuthentication(java.lang.String authenticationName, java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> initParams)

Method Summary

abstract User	authenticate(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> params) Deprecated. use #authenticate(HttpServletRequest) instead
abstract User	authenticate(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> params, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) authenticates a user and returns an instance of User if authentication has been successfull.
java.lang.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 java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> initParams

Constructor Detail

AbstractAuthentication

public AbstractAuthentication(java.lang.String authenticationName,
                              java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> initParams)

Parameters:

authenticationName -

initParams -

Method Detail

getAuthenticationName

public java.lang.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(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> params)
                           throws WrongCredentialsException

Deprecated. use #authenticate(HttpServletRequest) instead

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

authenticate

public abstract User authenticate(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.String> params,
                                  javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)
                           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

request -

Returns:

an instance of User

Throws:

WrongCredentialsException - if authentication was not successfull