Package org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication

Class SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource

java.lang.Object

org.springframework.security.ldap.authentication.SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.springframework.ldap.core.AuthenticationSource

public class SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource
extends 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

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getCredentials()
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 Details

SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource

public SpringSecurityAuthenticationSource()

Method Details

getPrincipal

public 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 String getCredentials()

Specified by:

getCredentials in interface org.springframework.ldap.core.AuthenticationSource

See Also:

• AuthenticationSource.getCredentials()