org.jbei.ice.lib.account.authentication

Class UserIdAuthentication

java.lang.Object

org.jbei.ice.lib.account.authentication.UserIdAuthentication

All Implemented Interfaces:

IAuthentication

public class UserIdAuthentication
extends Object
implements IAuthentication

Authentication implementation that only validates the user id with any non empty string as password

Author:

Hector Plahar

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
UserIdAuthentication()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	authenticates(String userId, String password) Authenticates a user's name and password against the system's stored credentials

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

UserIdAuthentication

public UserIdAuthentication()

Method Detail

authenticates

public String authenticates(String userId,
                            String password)
                     throws AuthenticationException

Description copied from interface: IAuthentication

Authenticates a user's name and password against the system's stored credentials

Specified by:

authenticates in interface IAuthentication

Parameters:

userId - user login Identifier

password - user password

Returns:

the account identifier (usually email) on successful authentication with the credentials provided, null otherwise

Throws:

AuthenticationException - on exception authenticating