Package org.neotropic.kuwaiba.core.authentication

Class DefaultAuthenticationProvider

java.lang.Object

org.neotropic.kuwaiba.core.authentication.AbstractAuthenticationProvider

org.neotropic.kuwaiba.core.authentication.DefaultAuthenticationProvider

public class DefaultAuthenticationProvider
extends AbstractAuthenticationProvider

Authenticates users using the built-in database.

Author:

Charles Edward Bedon Cortazar <charles.bedon@kuwaiba.org>

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DefaultAuthenticationProvider()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	configureProvider(HashMap<String,Object> parameters)	Sets the parameters necessary for the authentication to work (database handle, Active Directory settings, etc).
Session	login(String user, String password, int sessionType, String ipAddress)	Attempts to authenticate a user.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DefaultAuthenticationProvider

public DefaultAuthenticationProvider()

Method Detail

configureProvider

public void configureProvider(HashMap<String,Object> parameters)
                       throws AuthenticationException

Description copied from class: AbstractAuthenticationProvider

Sets the parameters necessary for the authentication to work (database handle, Active Directory settings, etc).

Specified by:

configureProvider in class AbstractAuthenticationProvider

Parameters:

parameters - The Application Entity Manager as aem.

Throws:

AuthenticationException - If the aem variable is not supplied and it's not the expected type.

login

public Session login(String user,
                     String password,
                     int sessionType,
                     String ipAddress)
              throws AuthenticationException

Description copied from class: AbstractAuthenticationProvider

Attempts to authenticate a user.

Specified by:

login in class AbstractAuthenticationProvider

Parameters:

user - The user.

password - The password.

sessionType - The session type (web, desktop, web service, other)

ipAddress - The IP address the login request comes from.

Returns:

A session object containing the user profile and its privileges, basically.

Throws:

AuthenticationException - If the authentication process is incorrect.