com.lightdev.app.trec.server.sam
Class SAMAuthorizer

java.lang.Object
  com.lightdev.app.trec.server.sam.SAMAuthorizer

public class SAMAuthorizer
extends Object

SAMAuthorizer exposes methods login, logout and changeOwnPassword of a given Gatekeeper object as remote methods so that an XmlRpcServer can use the Authorizer as a handler for respective client requests.

Version:

2, 25.12.2005

Author:

Ulrich Hilger, Light Development, http://www.lightdev.com, info@lightdev.com, published under the terms and conditions of the BSD License, for details see file license.txt in the distribution package of this software

Field Summary

static String	DEFAULT_NAME default name this object is addressed as a TREC agent under
static String	METHOD_CHG_PW name of change own password method
static String	METHOD_LOGIN name of login method
static String	METHOD_LOGOUT name of logout method
static String	RID_CHANGE_OWN_PASSWORD

Constructor Summary

SAMAuthorizer(Gatekeeper gatekeeper)
constructor

Method Summary

boolean	changeOwnPassword(String sid, String oldPw, String newPw) change the password of the user logged in via a given session
String	login(String userId, String pw) log in a given user with a given password
boolean	logout(String sessionId) log out the user with the given session id

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

DEFAULT_NAME

public static final String DEFAULT_NAME

default name this object is addressed as a TREC agent under

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Constant Field Values

METHOD_LOGIN

public static final String METHOD_LOGIN

name of login method

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METHOD_LOGOUT

public static final String METHOD_LOGOUT

name of logout method

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METHOD_CHG_PW

public static final String METHOD_CHG_PW

name of change own password method

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RID_CHANGE_OWN_PASSWORD

public static final String RID_CHANGE_OWN_PASSWORD

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Constructor Detail

SAMAuthorizer

public SAMAuthorizer(Gatekeeper gatekeeper)

constructor

Parameters:

gatekeeper - the gatekeeper to use for authentication

Method Detail

logout

public boolean logout(String sessionId)

log out the user with the given session id

Parameters:

sessionId - the session id string to log out

login

public String login(String userId,
                    String pw)
             throws Exception

log in a given user with a given password

Parameters:

userId - the user id

pw - the password

Returns:

a session id String or null if login failed

Throws:

Exception

changeOwnPassword

public boolean changeOwnPassword(String sid,
                                 String oldPw,
                                 String newPw)
                          throws Exception

change the password of the user logged in via a given session

Parameters:

sid - id of session the password is to be changed for

oldPw - current password of user

newPw - new password to set

Throws:

Exception - if something goes wrong, e.g. oldPW not matching, etc.