org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.spi.security.user

Interface UserAuthenticationFactory

public interface UserAuthenticationFactory

Provides a user management specific implementation of the Authentication interface to those LoginModules that verify a given authentication request by evaluation information exposed by the Jackrabbit user management API.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
@Nullable Authentication	getAuthentication(@NotNull UserConfiguration configuration, @NotNull Root root, @Nullable java.lang.String userId) Returns an implementation Authentication for the specified userId.

Method Detail

getAuthentication

@Nullable
@Nullable Authentication getAuthentication(@NotNull
                                                     @NotNull UserConfiguration configuration,
                                                     @NotNull
                                                     @NotNull Root root,
                                                     @Nullable
                                                     @Nullable java.lang.String userId)

Returns an implementation Authentication for the specified userId.

Parameters:

configuration - The user configuration.

root - The Root that provides repository access.

userId - The userId for which a user authentication is provided.

Returns:

The authentication object for the given configuration and userId or null if this implementation cannot not handle the specified parameters.