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

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

CredentialsSource

public final class UsernamePasswordCredentialsSource
extends Object
implements CredentialsSource

Implementation of a CredentialsSource that contains a username and password.

Note that this implementation is for service-to-service authentication. It cannot handle user-to-service authentication.

Since:

0.9

Author:

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

Constructor Summary

UsernamePasswordCredentialsSource(String username, String password)
Constructor that accepts the username and password for which to construct UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken's from.

Method Summary

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

UsernamePasswordCredentialsSource

public UsernamePasswordCredentialsSource(String username,
                                         String password)

Constructor that accepts the username and password for which to construct UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken's from.

Parameters:

username - the username.

password - the password.

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 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.