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Interface IdentityAsserter

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultIdentityAsserter

public interface IdentityAsserter

IdentityAsserter validates a token in order to establish a user's identity. The token is an identity assertion, a statement that asserts an identity.

A token is opaque to Coherence. It could be a standard type such as a SAML Assertion or a proprietary type.

Since:

Coherence 3.6

Author:

dag 2009.10.30

Method Summary

Subject

assertIdentity(Object oToken) Asserts an identity based on a token-based identity assertion.

Method Detail

assertIdentity

Subject assertIdentity(Object oToken)
                       throws SecurityException

Asserts an identity based on a token-based identity assertion.

Parameters:

oToken - the token that asserts identity.

Returns:

a Subject representing the identity.

Throws:

SecurityException - if the identity assertion fails.

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