org.fcrepo.auth

Interface HTTPPrincipalFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

HTTPHeaderPrincipalFactory

public interface HTTPPrincipalFactory

These factories extract security principals from HTTP requests, often from request headers. Principals that will be assigned roles or privileges must have a unique name string.

Author:

Gregory Jansen

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Set<Principal>	getGroupPrincipals(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Extract extra security principals from an HTTP request.

Method Detail

getGroupPrincipals

Set<Principal> getGroupPrincipals(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Extract extra security principals from an HTTP request.

Parameters:

request - the request

Returns:

a set of security principals