Package org.pac4j.core.credentials.authenticator

Interface Authenticator

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractProfileService, InMemoryProfileService, LocalCachingAuthenticator

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.

@FunctionalInterface
public interface Authenticator

An authenticator is responsible for validating Credentials and should throw a CredentialsException if the authentication fails.

Since:

1.7.0

Author:

Jerome Leleu

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final Authenticator	ALWAYS_VALIDATE

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	validate(Credentials credentials, WebContext context, SessionStore sessionStore)	Validate the credentials.

Field Details

ALWAYS_VALIDATE

static final Authenticator ALWAYS_VALIDATE

Method Details

validate

void validate(Credentials credentials,
 WebContext context,
 SessionStore sessionStore)

Validate the credentials. It should throw a CredentialsException in case of failure.

Parameters:

credentials - the given credentials

context - the web context

sessionStore - the session store