org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.tomcat

Class AbstractPicketLinkAuthenticator

java.lang.Object

AuthenticatorBase

org.picketlink.identity.federation.bindings.tomcat.AbstractPicketLinkAuthenticator

public abstract class AbstractPicketLinkAuthenticator
extends AuthenticatorBase

An authenticator that delegates actual authentication to a realm, and in turn to a security manager, by presenting a "conventional" identity. The security manager must accept the conventional identity and generate the real identity for the authenticated principal.

Subclasses should override some methods to provide especific implementation according with the binding/environment.

Author:

Ovidiu Feodorov, Anil.Saldhana@redhat.com, Pedro Silva

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected String	authMethod This is the auth method used in the register method
protected static PicketLinkLogger	logger
protected boolean	needSubjectPrincipalSubstitution The authenticator may not be aware of the user name until after the underlying security exercise is complete.
protected SubjectSecurityInteraction	subjectInteraction
protected String	subjectInteractionClassName

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AbstractPicketLinkAuthenticator()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
protected abstract void	doRegister(Request request, Response response, Principal principal, String password) Subclasses should override this method to register an authenticated Principal.
protected Principal	getSubjectPrincipal()
protected boolean	performAuthentication(Request request, Response response, LoginConfig loginConfig) Actually performs the authentication.
void	setAuthMethod(String authMethod) Set the auth method via WEB-INF/context.xml (JBoss AS)
void	setNeedSubjectPrincipalSubstitution(String needSubjectPrincipalSubstitutionVal)
void	setSubjectInteractionClassName(String subjectRetrieverClassName) Set this if you want to override the default SubjectSecurityInteraction

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

logger

protected static final PicketLinkLogger logger

authMethod

protected String authMethod

This is the auth method used in the register method

needSubjectPrincipalSubstitution

protected boolean needSubjectPrincipalSubstitution

The authenticator may not be aware of the user name until after the underlying security exercise is complete. The Subject will have the proper user name. Hence we may need to perform an additional authentication now with the user name we have obtained.

subjectInteraction

protected SubjectSecurityInteraction subjectInteraction

subjectInteractionClassName

protected String subjectInteractionClassName

Constructor Detail

AbstractPicketLinkAuthenticator

public AbstractPicketLinkAuthenticator()

Method Detail

setAuthMethod

public void setAuthMethod(String authMethod)

Set the auth method via WEB-INF/context.xml (JBoss AS)

Parameters:

authMethod -

setNeedSubjectPrincipalSubstitution

public void setNeedSubjectPrincipalSubstitution(String needSubjectPrincipalSubstitutionVal)

setSubjectInteractionClassName

public void setSubjectInteractionClassName(String subjectRetrieverClassName)

Set this if you want to override the default SubjectSecurityInteraction

Parameters:

subjectRetrieverClassName -

performAuthentication

protected boolean performAuthentication(Request request,
                                        Response response,
                                        LoginConfig loginConfig)
                                 throws IOException

Actually performs the authentication. Subclasses should call this method when implementing the AuthenticatorBase.authenticate method.

This method was created to allow different signatures for the AuthenticatorBase.authenticate method according with the catalina version.

Parameters:

request -

response -

loginConfig -

Returns:

Throws:

IOException

doRegister

protected abstract void doRegister(Request request,
                                   Response response,
                                   Principal principal,
                                   String password)

Subclasses should override this method to register an authenticated Principal.

Parameters:

request -

response -

principal -

password -

getSubjectPrincipal

protected Principal getSubjectPrincipal()