net.officefloor.plugin.web.http.security.store

Interface CredentialEntry

All Known Implementing Classes:

PasswordEntry

public interface CredentialEntry

Entry within the CredentialStore.

Author:

Daniel Sagenschneider

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
byte[]	retrieveCredentials() Retrieves the credentials.
Set<String>	retrieveRoles() Retrieves the roles.

Method Detail

retrieveCredentials

byte[] retrieveCredentials()
                    throws IOException

Retrieves the credentials.

The actual credentials are particular to the authentication scheme:

1. Basic: clear text password (Charset being US_ASCII)
2. Digest: encrypted "username:realm:password" as per the algorithm. For example, if the algorithm were MD5 then the following command would produce the appropriate value (Charset being US_ASCII): echo -n "username:realm:password" | md5sum
3. Negotiate: as necessary for authentication

Returns:

Value as per above description.

Throws:

IOException - If fails to retrieve the credentials.

retrieveRoles

Set<String> retrieveRoles()
                   throws IOException

Retrieves the roles.

Returns:

Set of roles.

Throws:

IOException - If fails to retrieve the roles.