ContextualAuthenticationPolicyFactory (cas-server-core-api-authentication 6.1.2 API)

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.
```
@FunctionalInterface
public interface ContextualAuthenticationPolicyFactory<T>
```
A factory for producing (stateful) authentication policies based on arbitrary context data. This component provides a way to inject stateless factories into components that produce stateful authentication policies that can leverage arbitrary contextual information to evaluate security policy.

Since:

4.0.0

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`ContextualAuthenticationPolicy<T>`	`createPolicy(T context)`	Creates a contextual (presumably stateful) authentication policy based on provided context data.

- Method Detail
  - createPolicy
```
ContextualAuthenticationPolicy<T> createPolicy(T context)
```
    Creates a contextual (presumably stateful) authentication policy based on provided context data.
    
    Parameters:
    
    context - Context data used to create an authentication policy.
    
    Returns:
    
    Contextual authentication policy object. The returned object should be assumed to be stateful and not thread safe unless explicitly noted otherwise.