org.kuali.rice.ksb.security.credentials
Class X509CredentialsSource

java.lang.Object
  org.kuali.rice.ksb.security.credentials.X509CredentialsSource

All Implemented Interfaces:

CredentialsSource

public final class X509CredentialsSource
extends Object
implements CredentialsSource

Implementation of a CredentialsSource that returns an X509 Certificate.

Note that this class is for service-to-service authentication, not user-to-service authentication.

Since:

0.9

Author:

Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

See Also:

X509Certificate

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.kuali.rice.core.security.credentials.CredentialsSource

CredentialsSource.CredentialsType

Constructor Summary

X509CredentialsSource(X509Certificate certificate)

Method Summary

Credentials	getCredentials(String serviceEndpoint) Returns the SecurityContext which should have the proper credentials to give to any system requiring credentials.
CredentialsSource.CredentialsType	getSupportedCredentialsType() Returns the supported CredentialsType.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

X509CredentialsSource

public X509CredentialsSource(X509Certificate certificate)

Method Detail

getCredentials

public Credentials getCredentials(String serviceEndpoint)

Description copied from interface: CredentialsSource

Returns the SecurityContext which should have the proper credentials to give to any system requiring credentials. This class has no guarantees what a user will do with the credentials and should thus always return a thread-safe version.

Specified by:

getCredentials in interface CredentialsSource

Returns:

the credentials, or null if credentials could not be obtained.

getSupportedCredentialsType

public CredentialsSource.CredentialsType getSupportedCredentialsType()

Description copied from interface: CredentialsSource

Returns the supported CredentialsType. This should never be null.

Specified by:

getSupportedCredentialsType in interface CredentialsSource

Returns:

the supported credentials type.