Package net.officefloor.web.security.store

Interface CredentialEntry

All Known Implementing Classes:

PasswordEntry

public interface CredentialEntry

Entry within the CredentialStore.

Author:

Daniel Sagenschneider

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
byte[]	retrieveCredentials()	Retrieves the credentials.
Set<String>	retrieveRoles()	Retrieves the roles.

Method Details

retrieveCredentials

byte[] retrieveCredentials()
                    throws HttpException

Retrieves the credentials.

The actual credentials are particular to the authentication scheme:

1. Basic: clear text password (Charset being US_ASCII)
2. Digest: encrypted "username:realm:password" as per the algorithm. For example, if the algorithm were MD5 then the following command would produce the appropriate value (Charset being US_ASCII): echo -n "username:realm:password" | md5sum
3. Negotiate: as necessary for authentication

Returns:

Value as per above description.

Throws:

HttpException - If fails to retrieve the credentials.

retrieveRoles

Set<String> retrieveRoles()
                   throws HttpException

Retrieves the roles.

Returns:

Set of roles.

Throws:

HttpException - If fails to retrieve the roles.