SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource (spring-security-docs-manual 5.5.1 API)

java.lang.Object
- org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.springframework.ldap.core.AuthenticationSource
```
public class SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource
extends java.lang.Object
implements org.springframework.ldap.core.AuthenticationSource
```
An AuthenticationSource to retrieve authentication information stored in Spring Security's SecurityContextHolder.
This is a copy of Spring LDAP's AcegiAuthenticationSource, updated for use with Spring Security 2.0.

Since:

2.0

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource()

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.String`	`getCredentials()`
`java.lang.String`	`getPrincipal()`	Get the principals of the logged in user, in this case the distinguished name.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource
```
public SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource()
```
- Method Detail
  - getPrincipal
```
public java.lang.String getPrincipal()
```
    Get the principals of the logged in user, in this case the distinguished name.
    
    Specified by:
    
    getPrincipal in interface org.springframework.ldap.core.AuthenticationSource
    
    Returns:
    
    the distinguished name of the logged in user.
  - getCredentials
```
public java.lang.String getCredentials()
```
    Specified by:
    
    getCredentials in interface org.springframework.ldap.core.AuthenticationSource
    
    See Also:
    
    AuthenticationSource.getCredentials()