com.sap.cds.services.runtime

Interface AuthenticationInfoProvider

public interface AuthenticationInfoProvider

A AuthenticationInfoProvider provides the AuthenticationInfo of the request. This is usually interpreted by a UserInfoProvider to extract the user information from the authentication. The AuthenticationInfo might be used directly to implement principal propagation of the raw authentication context.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AuthenticationInfo	get() Provides the AuthenticationInfo.
default void	setPrevious(AuthenticationInfoProvider previous) Passes the latest configured AuthenticationInfoProvider during configuration phase when this instances gets registered.

Method Detail

get

AuthenticationInfo get()

Provides the AuthenticationInfo.

Returns:

the AuthenticationInfo if available, null otherwise.

setPrevious

default void setPrevious(AuthenticationInfoProvider previous)

Passes the latest configured AuthenticationInfoProvider during configuration phase when this instances gets registered. The previous provider can be used to build an adapted provider on top.

Parameters:

previous - The previously registered provider.