net.spy.jwebkit.auth
Interface PasswordCheckingAuthAdaptor

All Superinterfaces:

AuthAdaptor

All Known Implementing Classes:

PropPasswdAuthAdaptor, SimpleAuthAdaptor

public interface PasswordCheckingAuthAdaptor
extends AuthAdaptor

AuthAdaptor subinterface for authenticators that can perform simple password authentication validation (i.e. basic and form).

Method Summary

java.security.Principal

checkPassword(java.lang.String user, java.lang.String pass) Return a Principal representing the given username if the given password is considered valid for the given user.

Methods inherited from interface net.spy.jwebkit.auth.AuthAdaptor

didAuthenticate, init, isPrincipalInRole

Method Detail

checkPassword

java.security.Principal checkPassword(java.lang.String user,
                                      java.lang.String pass)
                                      throws javax.servlet.ServletException

Return a Principal representing the given username if the given password is considered valid for the given user.

Parameters:

user - the username

pass - the password

Returns:

the Principal representing the user, or null if the credentials are invalid

Throws:

javax.servlet.ServletException - if something goes wrong