org.gcube.soa3.connector.common.security
Interface Credentials

All Known Implementing Classes:

Base64EncodedCredentials, FederatedCredentials, TicketCredentials, UserNamePasswordCredentials, X509CombinedCredentials, X509TLSCredentials

public interface Credentials

Interface representing the credentials

Author:

Ciro Formisano (ENG)

Method Summary

void	disposeCredentials() Disposes the credentials making them unusable
String	getAuthenticationString() Gets the raw credentialS String if exists, a String representiation of the credentials used otherwise
String	getAuthenticationType() The credentials type
String	getHeaderString() Gets the credential string to be set in the header of the message
boolean	isPrepared()
void	prepareCredentials() Prepares the credentials to be sent with the message: if the credentials are string based and should be set in an header, they are returned as a String object

Method Detail

prepareCredentials

void prepareCredentials()

Prepares the credentials to be sent with the message: if the credentials are string based and should be set in an header, they are returned as a String object

disposeCredentials

void disposeCredentials()

Disposes the credentials making them unusable

getAuthenticationType

String getAuthenticationType()

The credentials type

Returns:

the credentials type

getAuthenticationString

String getAuthenticationString()

Gets the raw credentialS String if exists, a String representiation of the credentials used otherwise

Returns:

the credentials String

getHeaderString

String getHeaderString()

Gets the credential string to be set in the header of the message

Returns:

the credentials string if it is required to be set in an header, null otherwise

isPrepared

boolean isPrepared()

Returns:

true if the credentials have been correctly prepared