org.mule.api.security
Interface SecurityProvider

All Superinterfaces:

Initialisable, NameableObject, NamedObject

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractSecurityProvider, JaasSimpleAuthenticationProvider, PGPSecurityProvider, SpringProviderAdapter, TestMultiuserSecurityProvider, TestSingleUserSecurityProvider

public interface SecurityProvider
extends Initialisable, NameableObject

SecurityProvider is a target security provider that actually does the work of authenticating credentials and populating the Authentication object.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.mule.api.lifecycle.Initialisable

PHASE_NAME

Method Summary

Authentication	authenticate(Authentication authentication)
SecurityContext	createSecurityContext(Authentication auth)
boolean	supports(Class<?> aClass)

Methods inherited from interface org.mule.api.lifecycle.Initialisable

initialise

Methods inherited from interface org.mule.api.NameableObject

setName

Methods inherited from interface org.mule.api.NamedObject

getName

Method Detail

authenticate

Authentication authenticate(Authentication authentication)
                            throws SecurityException

Throws:

SecurityException

supports

boolean supports(Class<?> aClass)

createSecurityContext

SecurityContext createSecurityContext(Authentication auth)
                                      throws UnknownAuthenticationTypeException

Throws:

UnknownAuthenticationTypeException