io.muserver.rest

Interface UserPassAuthenticator

public interface UserPassAuthenticator

An authenticator used by BasicAuthSecurityFilter which can look up a user based on a username and password.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Principal	authenticate(String username, String password) Looks up a user.

Method Detail

authenticate

Principal authenticate(String username,
                       String password)

Looks up a user.

It is required that the user object implements the Principal interface, so if you have custom classes for users you may need to wrap them to include this.

You can later get the principle from a SecurityContext (using the @Context annotation on a REST method) and cast SecurityContext.getUserPrincipal() to your custom class.

Parameters:

username - The username

password - The password

Returns:

The user, or null if the credentials are invalid.