com.sap.cloud.security.servlet

Interface TokenAuthenticator

public interface TokenAuthenticator

TokenAuthenticator is used to authenticate a user sending servlet requests to a service via token. It produces a TokenAuthenticationResult. The result contains the necessary information to perform container specific authentication.
See JettyTokenAuthenticator in the java-security-test library on how this is used with jetty to perform authentication.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
TokenAuthenticationResult	validateRequest(javax.servlet.ServletRequest request, javax.servlet.ServletResponse response) Performs the authentication for the given request.

Method Detail

validateRequest

TokenAuthenticationResult validateRequest(javax.servlet.ServletRequest request,
                                          javax.servlet.ServletResponse response)

Performs the authentication for the given request.

Parameters:

request - servlet request.

response - servlet response.

Returns:

a TokenAuthenticationResult.