com.ontimize.dms.jcr.security
Class JcrUserCredentials

java.lang.Object
  com.ontimize.dms.jcr.security.JcrUserCredentials

public class JcrUserCredentials
extends java.lang.Object

Constructor Summary

JcrUserCredentials(java.lang.Object id, java.lang.String userID, char[] password)
Create a new SimpleCredentials object, given a user ID and password.

Method Summary

java.lang.Object	getAttribute(java.lang.String name) Returns the value of the named attribute as an Object, or null if no attribute of the given name exists.
java.lang.String[]	getAttributeNames() Returns the names of the attributes available to this credentials instance.
java.lang.Object	getId()
char[]	getPassword() Returns the user password.
java.lang.String	getUserID() Returns the user ID.
void	removeAttribute(java.lang.String name) Removes an attribute from this credentials instance.
void	setAttribute(java.lang.String name, java.lang.Object value) Stores an attribute in this credentials instance.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

JcrUserCredentials

public JcrUserCredentials(java.lang.Object id,
                          java.lang.String userID,
                          char[] password)

Create a new SimpleCredentials object, given a user ID and password.

Note that the given password is cloned before it is stored in the new SimpleCredentials object. This should avoid the risk of having unnecessary references to password data lying around in memory.

Parameters:

userID - the user ID

password - the user's password

Method Detail

getPassword

public char[] getPassword()

Returns the user password.

Note that this method returns a reference to the password. It is the caller's responsibility to zero out the password information after it is no longer needed.

Returns:

the password

getUserID

public java.lang.String getUserID()

Returns the user ID.

Returns:

the user ID.

getId

public java.lang.Object getId()

setAttribute

public void setAttribute(java.lang.String name,
                         java.lang.Object value)

Stores an attribute in this credentials instance.

Parameters:

name - a String specifying the name of the attribute

value - the Object to be stored

getAttribute

public java.lang.Object getAttribute(java.lang.String name)

Returns the value of the named attribute as an Object, or null if no attribute of the given name exists.

Parameters:

name - a String specifying the name of the attribute

Returns:

an Object containing the value of the attribute, or null if the attribute does not exist

removeAttribute

public void removeAttribute(java.lang.String name)

Removes an attribute from this credentials instance.

Parameters:

name - a String specifying the name of the attribute to remove

getAttributeNames

public java.lang.String[] getAttributeNames()

Returns the names of the attributes available to this credentials instance. This method returns an empty array if the credentials instance has no attributes available to it.

Returns:

a string array containing the names of the stored attributes