org.securityfilter.realm.catalina
Class CatalinaRealmAdapter

java.lang.Object
  org.securityfilter.realm.catalina.CatalinaRealmAdapter

All Implemented Interfaces:

SecurityRealmInterface

public class CatalinaRealmAdapter

extends Object

implements SecurityRealmInterface

CatalinaRealmAdapter - adapts a Catalina Realm for use with the securityfilter

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $ $Date: 2004/07/03 20:53:45 $

Author:

Max Cooper (max@maxcooper.com)

Constructor Summary

CatalinaRealmAdapter()

Method Summary

Principal	authenticate(String username, String password) Authenticate a user.
boolean	isUserInRole(Principal principal, String rolename) Test for role membership.
void	setRealm(Object realm) Set the Catalina Realm that we are to adapt.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CatalinaRealmAdapter

public CatalinaRealmAdapter()

Method Detail

setRealm

public void setRealm(Object realm)

Set the Catalina Realm that we are to adapt.

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