org.springframework.security.adapters
Interface AuthByAdapter

All Superinterfaces:

Authentication, Principal, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAdapterAuthenticationToken, PrincipalSpringSecurityUserToken

public interface AuthByAdapter
extends Authentication

Indicates a specialized, immutable, server-side only Authentication class.

Automatically considered valid by the AuthByAdapterProvider, provided the hash code presented by the implementation objects matches that expected by the AuthByAdapterProvider.

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Ben Alex

Method Summary

int	getKeyHash() Returns the hash code of the key that was passed to the constructor of the AuthByAdapter implementation.

Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.security.Authentication

getAuthorities, getCredentials, getDetails, getPrincipal, isAuthenticated, setAuthenticated

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Principal

equals, getName, hashCode, toString

Method Detail

getKeyHash

int getKeyHash()

Returns the hash code of the key that was passed to the constructor of the AuthByAdapter implementation. The implementation should convert the value to a hash code at construction time, rather than storing the key itself.

Returns:

the hash code of the key used when the object was created.