com.sptci.auth.digest
Class DatabaseAuthenticator

java.lang.Object
  com.sptci.auth.digest.Authenticator
      com.sptci.auth.digest.DatabaseAuthenticator

All Implemented Interfaces:

com.withay.http.PasswordRetriever

public class DatabaseAuthenticator
extends Authenticator

A PasswordRetriever implementation that performs authentication against a database.

Copyright 2006, Sans Pareil Technologies, Inc.

Version:

$Id: DatabaseAuthenticator.java 4553 2008-12-24 10:34:16Z rakesh $

Author:

Rakesh Vidyadharan 2006-11-15

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class com.sptci.auth.digest.Authenticator

Authenticator.ManagerTask

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.sptci.auth.digest.Authenticator

logger, user, userMap, userName

Constructor Summary

DatabaseAuthenticator()

Method Summary

protected User

fetchUser() Fetch the user object from the database and populate the fields of Authenticator.user.

Methods inherited from class com.sptci.auth.digest.Authenticator

getPassword, getUser, getUserName, setUser, setUserName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DatabaseAuthenticator

public DatabaseAuthenticator()

Method Detail

fetchUser

protected User fetchUser()
                  throws com.withay.http.PasswordRetrievalException

Fetch the user object from the database and populate the fields of Authenticator.user. Adds a new entry into Authenticator.userMap.

Specified by:

fetchUser in class Authenticator

Returns:

The properly initialised object.

Throws:

com.withay.http.PasswordRetrievalException - If errors are encountered while fetching the database object.