org.miniauth.credential.mapper

Interface CredentialMapper

All Known Subinterfaces:

DynamicCredentialMapper

public interface CredentialMapper

A "credential mapper" provides a method to retrieve a "credential secret" given a "credential key". For example, if a username is given, the user's (hashed) password may be returned.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getCredentialSecret(String credentialType, String credentialKey) Returns a "secret" corresponding to the given credentialKey for a given credential type.

Method Detail

getCredentialSecret

String getCredentialSecret(String credentialType,
                         String credentialKey)
                           throws CredentialStoreException

Returns a "secret" corresponding to the given credentialKey for a given credential type.

Parameters:

credentialType - Consumer/client credential? Or, user access credential? etc.

credentialKey - Consumer key, access token, username, etc.

Returns:

the corresponding secret.

Throws:

CredentialStoreException - TODO