org.apache.jackrabbit.api.security.authentication.token

Class TokenCredentials

java.lang.Object

org.apache.jackrabbit.api.security.authentication.token.TokenCredentials

public final class TokenCredentials
extends java.lang.Object

TokenCredentials implements the Credentials interface and represents single token credentials. Similar to javax.jcr.SimpleCredentials this credentials implementation allows to set additional attributes.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
TokenCredentials(java.lang.String token) Create a new instance.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	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.String	getToken() Returns the token this credentials are built from.
void	removeAttribute(java.lang.String name) Removes an attribute from this credentials instance.
void	setAttribute(java.lang.String name, java.lang.String value) Stores an attribute in this credentials instance.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

TokenCredentials

public TokenCredentials(java.lang.String token)
                 throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Create a new instance.

Parameters:

token - A token string used to create this credentials instance.

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If the specified token is null or empty string.

Method Detail

getToken

public java.lang.String getToken()

Returns the token this credentials are built from.

Returns:

the token.

setAttribute

public void setAttribute(java.lang.String name,
                         java.lang.String 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.String 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