org.eclipse.jetty.security
Interface Authenticator

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicAuthenticator, ClientCertAuthenticator, DigestAuthenticator, FormAuthenticator, JaspiAuthenticator, LoginAuthenticator, SpnegoAuthenticator

public interface Authenticator

Authenticator Interface

An Authenticator is responsible for checking requests and sending response challenges in order to authenticate a request. Various types of Authentication are returned in order to signal the next step in authentication.

Version:

$Rev: 4793 $ $Date: 2009-03-19 00:00:01 +0100 (Thu, 19 Mar 2009) $

Nested Class Summary

static interface	Authenticator.AuthConfiguration Authenticator Configuration
static interface	Authenticator.Factory Authenticator Factory

Method Summary

String	getAuthMethod()
boolean	secureResponse(javax.servlet.ServletRequest request, javax.servlet.ServletResponse response, boolean mandatory, Authentication.User validatedUser)
void	setConfiguration(Authenticator.AuthConfiguration configuration) Configure the Authenticator
Authentication	validateRequest(javax.servlet.ServletRequest request, javax.servlet.ServletResponse response, boolean mandatory) Validate a response

Method Detail

setConfiguration

void setConfiguration(Authenticator.AuthConfiguration configuration)

Configure the Authenticator

Parameters:

configuration -

getAuthMethod

String getAuthMethod()

Returns:

The name of the authentication method

validateRequest

Authentication validateRequest(javax.servlet.ServletRequest request,
                               javax.servlet.ServletResponse response,
                               boolean mandatory)
                               throws ServerAuthException

Validate a response

Parameters:

request - The request

response - The response

mandatory - True if authentication is mandatory.

Returns:

An Authentication. If Authentication is successful, this will be a Authentication.User. If a response has been sent by the Authenticator (which can be done for both successful and unsuccessful authentications), then the result will implement Authentication.ResponseSent. If Authentication is not manditory, then a Authentication.Deferred may be returned.

Throws:

ServerAuthException

secureResponse

boolean secureResponse(javax.servlet.ServletRequest request,
                       javax.servlet.ServletResponse response,
                       boolean mandatory,
                       Authentication.User validatedUser)
                       throws ServerAuthException

Parameters:

request -

response -

mandatory -

validatedUser -

Returns:

true if response is secure

Throws:

ServerAuthException