com.cenqua.fisheye.user.plugin
Class AbstractFishEyeAuthenticator

java.lang.Object
  com.cenqua.fisheye.user.plugin.AbstractFishEyeAuthenticator

All Implemented Interfaces:

FishEyeAuthenticator

Direct Known Subclasses:

ExampleFishEyeAuthenticator, ExampleFishEyeHttpAuthenticator, NullFishEyeAuthenticator

public abstract class AbstractFishEyeAuthenticator
extends java.lang.Object
implements FishEyeAuthenticator

A super class for all Custom FishEye Authenticators. It is best practice to extend this class instead of implementing a custom FishEyeAuthenticator.

Constructor Summary

AbstractFishEyeAuthenticator()

Method Summary

AuthToken	checkRequest(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Called to allow implementations to determine if the request is pre-authenticated, bypassing FishEye's own HTTP authentication.
boolean	isRequestUserStillValid(java.lang.String username, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req) Checks that the given username is still valid for the request.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface com.cenqua.fisheye.user.plugin.FishEyeAuthenticator

checkPassword, close, hasPermissionToAccess, init, recreateAuth

Constructor Detail

AbstractFishEyeAuthenticator

public AbstractFishEyeAuthenticator()

Method Detail

checkRequest

public AuthToken checkRequest(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Description copied from interface: FishEyeAuthenticator

Called to allow implementations to determine if the request is pre-authenticated, bypassing FishEye's own HTTP authentication.

Specified by:

checkRequest in interface FishEyeAuthenticator

Parameters:

request - the servlet request to check

Returns:

an authentication token if the request is authenticated, or null otherwise.

isRequestUserStillValid

public boolean isRequestUserStillValid(java.lang.String username,
                                       javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest req)

Description copied from interface: FishEyeAuthenticator

Checks that the given username is still valid for the request.

Specified by:

isRequestUserStillValid in interface FishEyeAuthenticator

Parameters:

username - the UserName, must not be null

req - the request to check the username against

Returns:

true if the username is still valid, false otherwise.