Package com.atlassian.crowd.service.authentication

Interface CrowdApplicationAuthenticationService

All Known Implementing Classes:

CrowdApplicationAuthenticationServiceImpl

public interface CrowdApplicationAuthenticationService

Service for creating persistent sessions for specified users.

Since:

6.2

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	authenticate(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response, String username)	Authenticates the user to the Crowd application.

Method Details

authenticate

void authenticate(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
 javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response,
 String username)
           throws ApplicationAccessDeniedException,
OperationFailedException,
InactiveAccountException,
InvalidAuthenticationException

Authenticates the user to the Crowd application. This method will result in generating a Crowd session token, which can be used to access the Crowd application. The user's credentials will not be verified, it is the caller's responsibility to ensure the user can authenticate.

Parameters:

request - the currently executed request

response - the currently executed response

username - the name of the user who should be treated as authenticated

Throws:

InvalidAuthenticationException - if the authentication was not successful.

OperationFailedException - if the error was thrown by directory implementation when attempting to find or authenticate the user.

InactiveAccountException - if the user account is inactive.

ApplicationAccessDeniedException - if the user does not have access to authenticate with the Crowd application.