POST_LOGIN Procedure

This procedure authenticates the user in the current session. It runs a subset of APEX_AUTHENTICATION.LOGIN, without steps 1 and 2. For steps, see LOGIN Procedure. This procedure is useful in authentication schemes where user credentials checking is performed externally to Oracle APEX.

Syntax

APEX_AUTHENTICATION.POST_LOGIN (
    p_username              IN VARCHAR2,
    p_password              IN VARCHAR2,
    p_uppercase_username    IN BOOLEAN  DEFAULT TRUE );

Parameters

Table 7-6 POST_LOGIN Parameters

Parameters	Description
`p_username`	The user's name.
`p_password`	The user's password.
`p_uppercase_username`	If `TRUE` then `p_username` is converted to uppercase.

Example

This procedure call passes user credentials, username and password, to the authentication scheme to finalize the user's authentication.

apex_authentication.post_login('JOE USER', 'mysecret');