Package org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication

Interface AuthenticationContext

All Known Subinterfaces:

AuthenticationComponent

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAuthenticationComponent, AbstractChainingAuthenticationComponent, AuthenticationComponentImpl, AuthenticationContextImpl, IdentityServiceAuthenticationComponent, JAASAuthenticationComponent, LDAPAuthenticationComponentImpl, SimpleAcceptOrRejectAllAuthenticationComponentImpl, SubsystemChainingAuthenticationComponent

public interface AuthenticationContext

Low-level interface allowing control and retrieval of the authentication information held for the current thread.

Author:

dward

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	clearCurrentSecurityContext()	Remove the current security information
net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication	getCurrentAuthentication()
String	getCurrentUserName()	Get the current user name.
String	getGuestUserName()	Get the name of the Guest User.
String	getGuestUserName(String tenantDomain)	Get the name of the guest user
String	getSystemUserName()	Get the name of the system user.
String	getSystemUserName(String tenantDomain)	Get the name of the system user
String	getUserDomain(String userName)	Extracts the tenant domain name from a user name
boolean	isCurrentUserTheSystemUser()	Is the current user the system user?
boolean	isGuestUserName(String userName)	True if this is a guest user ?
boolean	isSystemUserName(String userName)	True if this is the System user ?
net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication	setCurrentAuthentication(net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication authentication)	Explicitly set the current suthentication.
net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication	setSystemUserAsCurrentUser()	Set the system user as the current user.
net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication	setSystemUserAsCurrentUser(String tenantDomain)	Set the system user as the current user.
net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication	setUserDetails(net.sf.acegisecurity.UserDetails ud)	Explicitly set the given validated user details to be authenticated.

Method Detail

clearCurrentSecurityContext

void clearCurrentSecurityContext()

Remove the current security information

setCurrentAuthentication

net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication setCurrentAuthentication(net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication authentication)

Explicitly set the current suthentication. If the authentication is null the the current authentication is cleared.

Parameters:

authentication - the current authentication (may be null).

Returns:

Returns the modified authentication instance or null if it was cleared.

setUserDetails

net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication setUserDetails(net.sf.acegisecurity.UserDetails ud)

Explicitly set the given validated user details to be authenticated.

Parameters:

ud - the User Details

Returns:

Authentication

getCurrentAuthentication

net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication getCurrentAuthentication()
                                                      throws org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationException

Throws:

org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationException

setSystemUserAsCurrentUser

net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication setSystemUserAsCurrentUser()

Set the system user as the current user.

setSystemUserAsCurrentUser

net.sf.acegisecurity.Authentication setSystemUserAsCurrentUser(String tenantDomain)

Set the system user as the current user.

getSystemUserName

String getSystemUserName()

Get the name of the system user. Note: for MT, will get system for default domain only

getSystemUserName

String getSystemUserName(String tenantDomain)

Get the name of the system user

isSystemUserName

boolean isSystemUserName(String userName)

True if this is the System user ?

isCurrentUserTheSystemUser

boolean isCurrentUserTheSystemUser()

Is the current user the system user?

getGuestUserName

String getGuestUserName()

Get the name of the Guest User. Note: for MT, will get guest for default domain only

getGuestUserName

String getGuestUserName(String tenantDomain)

Get the name of the guest user

isGuestUserName

boolean isGuestUserName(String userName)

True if this is a guest user ?

getCurrentUserName

String getCurrentUserName()
                   throws org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationException

Get the current user name.

Throws:

org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.AuthenticationException

getUserDomain

String getUserDomain(String userName)

Extracts the tenant domain name from a user name

Parameters:

userName - a user name

Returns:

a tenant domain name