com.day.cq.security

Interface UserResolver

Deprecated.

cq 5.5

public interface UserResolver

Small Interface to register and retrieve a Service resolving the User associated to a Session. These is needed as Sessions do not require a User associated to it nor does the it's User-Id require to provide a unique / useful identifier. If there is a User with a Session depends on the Repository's Configuration. Thus there may be cases, where no User can be resolved for a valid Session.

See Also:

Session.getUserID()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
User	resolveUser(Session session) Deprecated. Resolve the User based on a Session.

Method Detail

resolveUser

User resolveUser(Session session)

Deprecated.

Resolve the User based on a Session. The Session's user-Id is required to be the same as the string entered with the login. The relation of this ID to a User depends on the Login-Module. As this is out of the scope of CQ, there are cases where the Session's user-id is not the same as the User's id.

Parameters:

session - to search user for it

Returns:

User or null if based on the Sessions User-ID can't be found