Package ch.tocco.nice2.security.spi.auth

Interface Challenge

All Superinterfaces:

ImmutableChallenge

All Known Implementing Classes:

AuthChallenge

public interface Challenge
extends ImmutableChallenge

A challenge is the information gathered by AuthenticationHandlers while in process of authenticating a subject. It is meant to be a challenge for authentication... which may succeed or fail.

Each registered handler gets a chance to vote for a subject that is about to gain access to part of the application. An AuthenticationHandler populates this object.

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface ch.tocco.nice2.security.api.auth.ImmutableChallenge

ImmutableChallenge.State

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface ch.tocco.nice2.security.api.auth.ImmutableChallenge

CREDENTIALS_ATTRIBUTE, REQUEST_URI

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	addMessage(String message)
void	removeAttribute(String name)
void	setAttribute(String name, Object value)
void	setAuthenticationResult(AuthenticationResult authenticationResult)	Sets the authentication result to this challenge.
void	vote(ImmutableChallenge.State state)	Vote for this challenge with an appropriate state.

Methods inherited from interface ch.tocco.nice2.security.api.auth.ImmutableChallenge

getAttribute, getAttributes, getAuthenticationResult, getMessages, getState, getVotes

Method Details

setAuthenticationResult

void setAuthenticationResult(AuthenticationResult authenticationResult)

Sets the authentication result to this challenge.

vote

void vote(ImmutableChallenge.State state)

Vote for this challenge with an appropriate state.

setAttribute

void setAttribute(String name,
 Object value)

removeAttribute

void removeAttribute(String name)

addMessage

void addMessage(String message)