com.bea.p13n.controls.login
Interface UserLoginControl

All Superinterfaces

Serializable

@ControlInterface
public interface UserLoginControl
extends Serializable

This control:

• is used by the portal GUI components to send authentication information to the portal site
• allows a site visitor to log in to the portal
• gives some indication as to whether the login is successful by providing access to the user's profile information, and throwing an exception otherwise.

It does not register the user

See Also

ProfileWrapper

Method Summary

ProfileWrapper	login(String username, String password, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Log this user into the Portal application
void	logout(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Log out current user

Method Detail

login

ProfileWrapper login(String username,
                     String password,
                     javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)
                     throws P13nControlException

Log this user into the Portal application

Parameters

username - The user's login name

password - The user's password

request - the HttpServletRequest object

Returns

a ProfileWrapper representing the user's stored information

Throws

P13nControlException - if user cannot be logged in, or if there is an error retrieving user profile.

logout

void logout(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Log out current user