org.jgroups.auth

Class AuthToken

java.lang.Object

org.jgroups.auth.AuthToken

All Implemented Interfaces:

Streamable

Direct Known Subclasses:

FixedMembershipToken, MD5Token, RegexMembership, SimpleToken, X509Token

public abstract class AuthToken
extends Object
implements Streamable

Abstract AuthToken class used by implementations of AUTH, e.g. SimpleToken, X509Token

Author:

Chris Mills

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
protected AUTH	auth A reference to AUTH
protected Log	log

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AuthToken()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract boolean	authenticate(AuthToken token, Message msg) This method should be implemented to perform the actual authentication of joining members.
abstract String	getName() Used to return the full package and class name of the implementation.
void	init()
void	setAuth(AUTH auth)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.jgroups.util.Streamable

readFrom, writeTo

Field Detail

log

protected final Log log

auth

protected AUTH auth

A reference to AUTH

Constructor Detail

AuthToken

public AuthToken()

Method Detail

setAuth

public void setAuth(AUTH auth)

init

public void init()

getName

public abstract String getName()

Used to return the full package and class name of the implementation. This is used by the AUTH protocol to create an instance of the implementation.

Returns:

a java.lang.String object of the package and class name

authenticate

public abstract boolean authenticate(AuthToken token,
                   Message msg)

This method should be implemented to perform the actual authentication of joining members.

Parameters:

token - the token sent by the joiner

msg - the Message object containing the actual JOIN_REQ

Returns:

true if authenticaion passed or false if it failed.