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