SecurityContextHolderStrategy (spring-security-docs 5.7.0-M2 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ListeningSecurityContextHolderStrategy
```
public interface SecurityContextHolderStrategy
```
A strategy for storing security context information against a thread.
The preferred strategy is loaded by SecurityContextHolder.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`clearContext()`	Clears the current context.
`SecurityContext`	`createEmptyContext()`	Creates a new, empty context implementation, for use by `SecurityContextRepository` implementations, when creating a new context for the first time.
`SecurityContext`	`getContext()`	Obtains the current context.
`void`	`setContext(SecurityContext context)`	Sets the current context.

- Method Detail
  - clearContext
```
void clearContext()
```
    Clears the current context.
  - getContext
```
SecurityContext getContext()
```
    Obtains the current context.
    
    Returns:
    
    a context (never null - create a default implementation if necessary)
  - setContext
```
void setContext(SecurityContext context)
```
    Sets the current context.
    
    Parameters:
    
    context - to the new argument (should never be null, although implementations must check if null has been passed and throw an IllegalArgumentException in such cases)
  - createEmptyContext
```
SecurityContext createEmptyContext()
```
    Creates a new, empty context implementation, for use by SecurityContextRepository implementations, when creating a new context for the first time.
    
    Returns:
    
    the empty context.