com.sun.sgs.impl.auth
Class NullAuthenticator

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.sgs.impl.auth.NullAuthenticator

All Implemented Interfaces:

IdentityAuthenticator

public class NullAuthenticator
extends Object
implements IdentityAuthenticator

A very simple implementation of IdentityAuthenticator that always authenticates a user based on NamePasswordCredentials. This is primarily useful for testing applications.

Constructor Summary

NullAuthenticator(Properties properties)
Creates an instance of NullAuthenticator.

Method Summary

Identity	authenticateIdentity(IdentityCredentials credentials) Always authenticates the given user unless the credentials are not of type NamePasswordCredentials, in which case a CredentialException is thrown.
String[]	getSupportedCredentialTypes() Returns the identifiers for this IdentityAuthenticator's supported credential types.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

NullAuthenticator

public NullAuthenticator(Properties properties)

Creates an instance of NullAuthenticator.

Parameters:

properties - the application's configuration properties

Method Detail

getSupportedCredentialTypes

public String[] getSupportedCredentialTypes()

Returns the identifiers for this IdentityAuthenticator's supported credential types. This may contain any number of identifiers, which are matched against the identifier of IdentityCredentials to determine if this IdentityAuthenticator can consume those credentials.

Specified by:

getSupportedCredentialTypes in interface IdentityAuthenticator

Returns:

the identifiers for the supported credential types

authenticateIdentity

public Identity authenticateIdentity(IdentityCredentials credentials)
                              throws CredentialException

Always authenticates the given user unless the credentials are not of type NamePasswordCredentials, in which case a CredentialException is thrown.

Specified by:

authenticateIdentity in interface IdentityAuthenticator

Parameters:

credentials - the identity's credentials, which must be an instance of NamePasswordCredentials

Returns:

the identity of the given user

Throws:

CredentialException - if the wrong type of credentials were provided