org.apache.juddi.v3.auth

Interface Authenticator

All Known Implementing Classes:

CryptedXMLDocAuthenticator, HTTPContainerAuthenticator, HTTPHeaderAuthenticator, JUDDIAuthenticator, LdapExpandedAuthenticator, LdapSimpleAuthenticator, MD5XMLDocAuthenticator, XMLDocAuthenticator

public interface Authenticator

Authenticator interface. Any class implementing this interface can be invoked by the AuthenticatorFactory to handle authentication of the user executing a UDDI request. This occurs in two steps: 1) Authenticating the user based the passed credentials 2) Identifying the user by associating either the authorizationKey or user Id with publisher information

Author:

Steve Viens (sviens@apache.org), Jeff Faath

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	authenticate(String authorizedName, String cred) This function is called from the Security API's GetAuthToken().
UddiEntityPublisher	identify(String authInfo, String authorizedName, WebServiceContext ctx)

Method Detail

authenticate

String authenticate(String authorizedName,
                    String cred)
             throws AuthenticationException,
                    FatalErrorException

This function is called from the Security API's GetAuthToken().

Parameters:

authorizedName - - userId of the user making the registry request

cred - - some authentical creditial (i.e. a password) which can be used to authenticate the user.

Returns:

The publisherID for this user

Throws:

AuthenticationException

FatalErrorException

identify

UddiEntityPublisher identify(String authInfo,
                             String authorizedName,
                             WebServiceContext ctx)
                      throws AuthenticationException,
                             FatalErrorException

Throws:

AuthenticationException

FatalErrorException