electric.security
Interface IRealm

All Known Implementing Classes:

ACLRealm, BasicRealm, JAASRealm

public interface IRealm

IRealm.

Author:

webMethods

Method Summary

boolean	authenticate(ICredentials credentials)
java.lang.String	getName()
java.lang.String	getPassword(java.lang.String name) Not all realms expose credentials/passwords.
java.security.Principal	getPrincipal(java.lang.String user)
java.lang.String[]	getRoles(java.lang.String user) Deprecated.
boolean	isUserInRole(java.lang.String user, java.lang.String[] roles) is the user in one of these roles

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

getPrincipal

public java.security.Principal getPrincipal(java.lang.String user)

Parameters:

user -

getRoles

public java.lang.String[] getRoles(java.lang.String user)

Deprecated.

Parameters:

user -

isUserInRole

public boolean isUserInRole(java.lang.String user,
                            java.lang.String[] roles)

is the user in one of these roles

Parameters:

user -

roles -

authenticate

public boolean authenticate(ICredentials credentials)

Parameters:

credentials -

getPassword

public java.lang.String getPassword(java.lang.String name)

Not all realms expose credentials/passwords. This will go away during the move to AuthComparator objects.

Parameters:

name -