Package org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication

Interface UserNameGenerator

All Known Implementing Classes:

NameBasedUserNameGenerator, RandomUserNameGenerator, TenantAwareUserNameGenerator

public interface UserNameGenerator

Implementations of this interface generate a user name

Author:

glen johnson at Alfresco dot com

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	generateUserName(String firstName, String lastName, String emailAddress, int seed)	Returns a generated user name.

Method Detail

generateUserName

String generateUserName(String firstName,
                        String lastName,
                        String emailAddress,
                        int seed)

Returns a generated user name. A seed value of 0 means first attempt. A non zero seed value indicates that the obvious user name is already taken and that some random element needs to be added to make a unique user id.

Parameters:

firstName - the given name of the new user

lastName - the family name of the new user

emailAddress - the email address of the new user

seed - a seed for user name generation, the value 0 means "no seed"

Returns:

the generated user name