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
java.lang.String	generateUserName(java.lang.String firstName, java.lang.String lastName, java.lang.String emailAddress, int seed)	Returns a generated user name.

Method Detail

generateUserName

java.lang.String generateUserName(java.lang.String firstName,
                                  java.lang.String lastName,
                                  java.lang.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