org.portletbridge.portlet
Interface BridgeAuthenticator

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultBridgeAuthenticator

public interface BridgeAuthenticator

Interface for supporting pluggable authentication. This needs to be configured as an init parameter in portlet xml called "authenticatorClassName".

Author:

jmccrindle

Method Summary

org.apache.commons.httpclient.Credentials

getCredentials(javax.portlet.RenderRequest request)

Method Detail

getCredentials

org.apache.commons.httpclient.Credentials getCredentials(javax.portlet.RenderRequest request)
                                                         throws org.portletbridge.ResourceException

Parameters:

request - the render request.

Returns:

a subclass of Credentials for HttpClient to use

Throws:

org.portletbridge.ResourceException - if there was a problem getting the credentials.