org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication
Class AbstractLdapAuthenticator

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.AbstractLdapAuthenticator

All Implemented Interfaces:

InitializingBean, MessageSourceAware, LdapAuthenticator

Direct Known Subclasses:

BindAuthenticator, PasswordComparisonAuthenticator

public abstract class AbstractLdapAuthenticator
extends Object
implements LdapAuthenticator, InitializingBean, MessageSourceAware

Base class for the authenticator implementations.

Field Summary

protected MessageSourceAccessor

messages

Constructor Summary

AbstractLdapAuthenticator(ContextSource contextSource)
Create an initialized instance with the ContextSource provided.

Method Summary

void	afterPropertiesSet()
protected ContextSource	getContextSource()
String[]	getUserAttributes()
protected List<String>	getUserDns(String username) Builds list of possible DNs for the user, worked out from the userDnPatterns property.
protected LdapUserSearch	getUserSearch()
void	setMessageSource(MessageSource messageSource)
void	setUserAttributes(String[] userAttributes) Sets the user attributes which will be retrieved from the directory.
void	setUserDnPatterns(String[] dnPattern) Sets the pattern which will be used to supply a DN for the user.
void	setUserSearch(LdapUserSearch userSearch)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.LdapAuthenticator

authenticate

Field Detail

messages

protected MessageSourceAccessor messages

Constructor Detail

AbstractLdapAuthenticator

public AbstractLdapAuthenticator(ContextSource contextSource)

Create an initialized instance with the ContextSource provided.

Parameters:

contextSource -

Method Detail

afterPropertiesSet

public void afterPropertiesSet()
                        throws Exception

Specified by:

afterPropertiesSet in interface InitializingBean

Throws:

Exception

getContextSource

protected ContextSource getContextSource()

getUserAttributes

public String[] getUserAttributes()

getUserDns

protected List<String> getUserDns(String username)

Builds list of possible DNs for the user, worked out from the userDnPatterns property.

Parameters:

username - the user's login name

Returns:

the list of possible DN matches, empty if userDnPatterns wasn't set.

getUserSearch

protected LdapUserSearch getUserSearch()

setMessageSource

public void setMessageSource(MessageSource messageSource)

Specified by:

setMessageSource in interface MessageSourceAware

setUserAttributes

public void setUserAttributes(String[] userAttributes)

Sets the user attributes which will be retrieved from the directory.

Parameters:

userAttributes -

setUserDnPatterns

public void setUserDnPatterns(String[] dnPattern)

Sets the pattern which will be used to supply a DN for the user. The pattern should be the name relative to the root DN. The pattern argument {0} will contain the username. An example would be "cn={0},ou=people".

Parameters:

dnPattern - the array of patterns which will be tried when converting a username to a DN.

setUserSearch

public void setUserSearch(LdapUserSearch userSearch)