com.sun.sgs.auth
Interface IdentityCredentials

public interface IdentityCredentials

Represents credentials that can be used for authentication. These credentials may be consumed by any mechanism for authentication. Implementations of IdentityCredentials should not actually contain any authentication logic. This should instead be part of the consuming IdentityAuthenticator.

Method Summary

String

getCredentialsType() Returns the identifier for the type of credentials.

Method Detail

getCredentialsType

String getCredentialsType()

Returns the identifier for the type of credentials. This will be used by the IdentityManager to find applicable IdentityAuthenticators to consume these credentials.

Returns:

an identifier for the type of credentials