org.apache.cactus.client.authentication
Class AbstractAuthentication

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.cactus.client.authentication.AbstractAuthentication

All Implemented Interfaces:

Authentication

Direct Known Subclasses:

BasicAuthentication, FormAuthentication

public abstract class AbstractAuthentication

extends java.lang.Object

implements Authentication

This class was designed with the simple assumption that ALL authentication implementations will have a String Name and a String Password. Two abstract functions validateName and validatePassword provide for concrete implementations to perform character validation. All the work is then done in the configure abstract function. In the BasicAuthentication class, for example, the configuring is done by adding the request property "Authorization" with a value "Basic <base64encode of 'userid:password'>".

Since:

1.3

Version:

$Id: AbstractAuthentication.java,v 1.10 2003/06/15 16:28:00 cmlenz Exp $

Author:

Vincent Massol, Jason Robertson, Christopher Lenz

Field Summary

protected java.lang.String	name User name part of the Credential
protected java.lang.String	password Password part of the Credential

Constructor Summary

AbstractAuthentication(java.lang.String theName, java.lang.String thePassword)

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getName()
protected java.lang.String	getPassword()
void	setName(java.lang.String theName) Sets the user name.
void	setPassword(java.lang.String thePassword) Sets the user password of the Credential.
protected abstract void	validateName(java.lang.String theName) Verify that the user name passed as parameter is a valid user name for the current authentication scheme.
protected abstract void	validatePassword(java.lang.String thePassword) Verify that the user password passed as parameter is a valid user password for the current authentication scheme.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.cactus.client.authentication.Authentication

configure

Field Detail

name

protected java.lang.String name

User name part of the Credential

password

protected java.lang.String password

Password part of the Credential

Constructor Detail

AbstractAuthentication

public AbstractAuthentication(java.lang.String theName,
                              java.lang.String thePassword)

Parameters:

theName - user name of the Credential

thePassword - user password of the Credential

Method Detail

setName

public final void setName(java.lang.String theName)

Sets the user name.

Parameters:

theName - user name of the Credential

getName

public final java.lang.String getName()

Returns:

the user name of the Credential

setPassword

public final void setPassword(java.lang.String thePassword)

Sets the user password of the Credential.

Parameters:

thePassword - the user password of the Credential

getPassword

protected final java.lang.String getPassword()

Returns:

the user password of the Credential

validateName

protected abstract void validateName(java.lang.String theName)

Verify that the user name passed as parameter is a valid user name for the current authentication scheme.

Parameters:

theName - the user name to validate

validatePassword

protected abstract void validatePassword(java.lang.String thePassword)

Verify that the user password passed as parameter is a valid user password for the current authentication scheme.

Parameters:

thePassword - the user password to validate