org.openanzo.server.security
Interface IAuthenticationProvider

All Superinterfaces:

IServerService

All Known Implementing Classes:

AuthenticationProvider, JaasAuthenticationProvider, LdapAuthenticationProvider

public interface IAuthenticationProvider
extends IServerService

IAuthenticationProvider provides means for Anzo to authenticate users

Author:

Matthew Roy ( mroy@cambridgesemantics.com )

Method Summary

org.openrdf.model.URI	authenticateUser(RepositoryConnection repositoryConnection, java.lang.String userId, java.lang.String password) Authenticate the userId and password with provider, and return the URI of the user within Anzo
void	registerIUserUpdateListener(IUserUpdateListener listener) Register IUserUpdateListener
void	unregisterIUserUpdateListener(IUserUpdateListener listener) Unregister IUserUpdateListener

Methods inherited from interface org.openanzo.server.repository.IServerService

close, getIsStarted, registerMBean, start, stop

Method Detail

authenticateUser

org.openrdf.model.URI authenticateUser(RepositoryConnection repositoryConnection,
                                       java.lang.String userId,
                                       java.lang.String password)
                                       throws AnzoException

Authenticate the userId and password with provider, and return the URI of the user within Anzo

Parameters:

repositoryConnection - RepositoryConnection used to do any anzo queries to determine userid

userId - Userid to authenticate

password - Password to authenticate

Returns:

URI of user within Anzo

Throws:

AnzoException

registerIUserUpdateListener

void registerIUserUpdateListener(IUserUpdateListener listener)

Register IUserUpdateListener

Parameters:

listener -

unregisterIUserUpdateListener

void unregisterIUserUpdateListener(IUserUpdateListener listener)

Unregister IUserUpdateListener

Parameters:

listener -