ServerAuthenticationConverter (spring-security-docs-manual 5.5.2 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ServerBearerTokenAuthenticationConverter, ServerFormLoginAuthenticationConverter, ServerHttpBasicAuthenticationConverter, ServerOAuth2AuthorizationCodeAuthenticationTokenConverter, ServerX509AuthenticationConverter

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.
```
@FunctionalInterface
public interface ServerAuthenticationConverter
```
A strategy used for converting from a ServerWebExchange to an Authentication used for authenticating with a provided ReactiveAuthenticationManager. If the result is Mono.empty(), then it signals that no authentication attempt should be made.

Since:

5.1

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`reactor.core.publisher.Mono<Authentication>`	`convert(org.springframework.web.server.ServerWebExchange exchange)`	Converts a `ServerWebExchange` to an `Authentication`

- Method Detail
  - convert
```
reactor.core.publisher.Mono<Authentication> convert(org.springframework.web.server.ServerWebExchange exchange)
```
    Converts a ServerWebExchange to an Authentication
    
    Parameters:
    
    exchange - The ServerWebExchange
    
    Returns:
    
    A Mono representing an Authentication