com.xdev.security.authentication

Class XmlInMemoryAuthenticatorProvider

java.lang.Object

com.xdev.security.authentication.XmlInMemoryAuthenticatorProvider

All Implemented Interfaces:

AuthenticatorProvider<CredentialsUsernamePassword,Boolean>, InMemoryAuthenticator.Provider

public final class XmlInMemoryAuthenticatorProvider
extends Object
implements InMemoryAuthenticator.Provider

InMemoryAuthenticator.Provider implementation that loads the required username/password data from a specified XML file.

Author:

XDEV Software (TM)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static InMemoryAuthenticator	buildAuthenticator(XmlConfiguration xmlConfig) Returns a new InMemoryAuthenticator instance based on the passed XmlConfiguration instance.
static Map<String,String>	buildEntries(List<XmlSubject> subjects) Transforms the passed List of XmlSubject instances into a string-string map of username/password entries.
static XmlInMemoryAuthenticatorProvider	New(File xmlFile) Creates a new XmlInMemoryAuthenticatorProvider instance that uses the passed File instance to read the configuration.
InMemoryAuthenticator	provideAuthenticator() Creates a new InMemoryAuthenticator instance from the configuration defined in the xml file.
static InMemoryAuthenticator	provideAuthenticatorFromFile(File xmlFile) Read the authentication data from the passed file and returns an new InMemoryAuthenticator instance based on that data.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

New

public static final XmlInMemoryAuthenticatorProvider New(File xmlFile)

Creates a new XmlInMemoryAuthenticatorProvider instance that uses the passed File instance to read the configuration.

Parameters:

xmlFile - the xml file to read the configuration from.

Returns:

a new XmlInMemoryAuthenticatorProvider instance

provideAuthenticatorFromFile

public static InMemoryAuthenticator provideAuthenticatorFromFile(File xmlFile)

Read the authentication data from the passed file and returns an new InMemoryAuthenticator instance based on that data.

Parameters:

xmlFile - the xml file to read the configuration from.

Returns:

a new InMemoryAuthenticator instance.

See Also:

buildAuthenticator(XmlConfiguration)

buildAuthenticator

public static InMemoryAuthenticator buildAuthenticator(XmlConfiguration xmlConfig)

Returns a new InMemoryAuthenticator instance based on the passed XmlConfiguration instance.

Parameters:

xmlConfig - the XmlConfiguration instance containing the configuration data.

Returns:

a new InMemoryAuthenticator instance based on the passed data.

buildEntries

public static Map<String,String> buildEntries(List<XmlSubject> subjects)

Transforms the passed List of XmlSubject instances into a string-string map of username/password entries.

Parameters:

subjects - the List of XmlSubject instances from which the entries shall be built.

Returns:

the username/password entries in the form of a Map instance.

provideAuthenticator

public final InMemoryAuthenticator provideAuthenticator()

Creates a new InMemoryAuthenticator instance from the configuration defined in the xml file.

Specified by:

provideAuthenticator in interface AuthenticatorProvider<CredentialsUsernamePassword,Boolean>

Specified by:

provideAuthenticator in interface InMemoryAuthenticator.Provider

Returns:

a new InMemoryAuthenticator instance.