org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet

Class RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory

java.lang.Object

org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet.BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory

org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet.RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.ServletAuthenticatorFactory

Direct Known Subclasses:

PublicApiAuthenticatorFactory

public class RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory
extends BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory

Authenticator to provide Remote User based Header authentication dropping back to Basic Auth otherwise. Statelessly authenticating via a secure header now does not require a Session so can be used with request-level load balancers which was not previously possible.

Since:

5.1

Author:

Kevin Roast

See Also:

and web.xml - bean id 'webscripts.authenticator.remoteuser'

This authenticator can be bound to /service and does not require /wcservice (Session) mapping.

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
class	RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory.RemoteUserAuthenticator Remote User authenticator - adds header authentication onto Basic Auth.

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet.BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory

BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory.BasicHttpAuthenticator

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected AuthenticationComponent	authenticationComponent
protected RemoteUserMapper	remoteUserMapper

Fields inherited from class org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet.BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory

authenticationService, listener

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.Authenticator	create(org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServletRequest req, org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServletResponse res)
void	setAuthenticationComponent(AuthenticationComponent authenticationComponent)
void	setRemoteUserMapper(RemoteUserMapper remoteUserMapper)

Methods inherited from class org.alfresco.repo.web.scripts.servlet.BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory

setAuthenticationListener, setAuthenticationService

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

remoteUserMapper

protected RemoteUserMapper remoteUserMapper

authenticationComponent

protected AuthenticationComponent authenticationComponent

Constructor Detail

RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory

public RemoteUserAuthenticatorFactory()

Method Detail

setRemoteUserMapper

public void setRemoteUserMapper(RemoteUserMapper remoteUserMapper)

setAuthenticationComponent

public void setAuthenticationComponent(AuthenticationComponent authenticationComponent)

create

public org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.Authenticator create(org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServletRequest req,
                                                                      org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.WebScriptServletResponse res)

Specified by:

create in interface org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.ServletAuthenticatorFactory

Overrides:

create in class BasicHttpAuthenticatorFactory