org.securityfilter.realm
Class SimpleSecurityRealmBase

java.lang.Object
  org.securityfilter.realm.SimpleSecurityRealmBase

All Implemented Interfaces:

SecurityRealmInterface

public class SimpleSecurityRealmBase

extends Object

implements SecurityRealmInterface

Security realm base class. This class insulates you from having to create or process Principal objects. You can implement a realm by overriding the two methods that neither take or return a Principal object and this class does the conversions for you.

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2004/07/03 20:53:44 $

Author:

Max Cooper (max@maxcooper.com)

Constructor Summary

SimpleSecurityRealmBase()

Method Summary

Principal	authenticate(String username, String password) Authenticate a user.
boolean	booleanAuthenticate(String username, String password) Authenticate a user.
boolean	isUserInRole(Principal principal, String rolename) Test for role membership.
boolean	isUserInRole(String username, String rolename) Test for role membership.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SimpleSecurityRealmBase

public SimpleSecurityRealmBase()

Method Detail

booleanAuthenticate

public boolean booleanAuthenticate(String username,
                                   String password)

Authenticate a user. Override this method in a subclass to avoid dealing with Principal objects.

Parameters:

username - a username

password - a plain text password, as entered by the user

Returns:

true if the username/password combination is valid, false otherwise

isUserInRole

public boolean isUserInRole(String username,
                            String rolename)

Test for role membership. Override this method in a subclass to avoid dealing with Principal objects.

Parameters:

username - a username

rolename - name of a role to test for membership

Returns:

true if the user is in the role, false otherwise

authenticate

public Principal authenticate(String username,
                              String password)

Authenticate a user.

Specified by:

authenticate in interface SecurityRealmInterface

Parameters:

username - a username

password - a plain text password, as entered by the user

Returns:

a Principal object representing the user if successful, false otherwise

isUserInRole

public boolean isUserInRole(Principal principal,
                            String rolename)

Test for role membership. Use Principal.getName() to get the username from the principal object.

Specified by:

isUserInRole in interface SecurityRealmInterface

Parameters:

principal - Principal object representing a user

rolename - name of a role to test for membership

Returns:

true if the user is in the role, false otherwise