com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials
Class ActiveCredential

java.lang.Object
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  +--com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.Credential
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        +--com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.ActiveCredential

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

BinaryCredential, JaasSubjectCredential, UserPasswordCredential

public abstract class ActiveCredential

extends Credential

An ActiveCredential hides the user's secret from the portlet and does all the authentication (communication) for the portlet. Some of these credentials might provide login() and logout() methods (e.g. HttpFormBasedAuthenticationCredential) but some won't because the protocol doesn't support it (e.g. HttpBasicAuthCredential).
However, all subclasses will usually provide a getAuthenticatedConnection method that will be used by the portlet to get authenticated backend connections to work with.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Fields inherited from class com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

KEY_CREDENTIAL_SECRET, LOGGER_NAME, secret

Constructor Summary

ActiveCredential()

Method Summary

boolean

isActive() Returns whether a credential is active or passive.

Methods inherited from class com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

checkInitialized, getCredentialSlotParameters, getSecretType, init

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ActiveCredential

public ActiveCredential()

Method Detail

isActive

public final boolean isActive()

Returns whether a credential is active or passive.

Overrides:

isActive in class Credential

Returns:

boolean always "true"