PasswordProvider (Oracle Database JDBC Java API Reference)

All Superinterfaces:

OracleResourceProvider
```
public interface PasswordProvider
extends OracleResourceProvider
```
A provider of passwords for authentication with Oracle Database.
The oracle.jdbc.provider.password connection property identifies the name of a PasswordProvider implementation. Connection properties under the namespace of oracle.jdbc.provider.password configure any parameters that an implementation defines. To illustrate, the connection properties below would identify a provider named "example-provider", and configure a parameter named "vaultId":
```
  oracle.jdbc.provider.password=example-provider
  oracle.jdbc.provider.password.vaultId=9999-8888-7777
```
ServiceLoader locates implementations of PasswordProvider declared by a META-INF/services/oracle.jdbc.spi.PasswordProvider file in the class path, or by a module-info.java file with a "provides oracle.jdbc.spi.PasswordProvider" directive in the module path. Typically, these files are distributed within a jar file that contains a PasswordProvider implementation.
Since:

23

Nested Class Summary
- Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface oracle.jdbc.spi.OracleResourceProvider
  OracleResourceProvider.Parameter

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`char[]`	`getPassword(java.util.Map<OracleResourceProvider.Parameter,java.lang.CharSequence> parameterValues)`	Returns a password for authentication with Oracle Database.

Methods inherited from interface oracle.jdbc.spi.OracleResourceProvider
getName, getParameters

- Method Detail
  - getPassword
```
char[] getPassword(java.util.Map<OracleResourceProvider.Parameter,java.lang.CharSequence> parameterValues)
```
    Returns a password for authentication with Oracle Database.
    The parameterValues passed to this method is a Map comprised as follows:
    The key set is the same as, or a subset of, the Parameter objects returned by an invocation of OracleResourceProvider.getParameters() on this provider.
    If no value is configured for a parameter, then the Map contains the default value of that Parameter, if any. If the parameter has no default value, then the map does not contain an entry for that Parameter.
    The Map does not contain entries having null values.
    The parameterValues Map may contain a CharSequence having a security sensitive value. After this method returns, the caller may wipe the contents of these CharSequence values from memory. Implementations of this method should not retain a reference to these CharSequence objects.
    Parameters:
    
    parameterValues - Parameters configured by connection properties . Not null. May be empty.
    
    Returns:
    
    A password. Not null.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - If the value of a parameter can not be parsed or interpreted.
    
    java.lang.IllegalStateException - If an implementation-specific failure prevents a resource from being provided.