org.alfresco.repo.security.authentication.external

Interface RemoteUserMapper

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultRemoteUserMapper

public interface RemoteUserMapper

An interface for objects capable of extracting an externally authenticated user ID from an HTTP request.

Author:

dward

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getRemoteUser(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Gets an externally authenticated user ID from an HTTP request.

Method Detail

getRemoteUser

String getRemoteUser(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Gets an externally authenticated user ID from an HTTP request.

Parameters:

request - the request

Returns:

the user ID or null if the user is unauthenticated