com.floragunn.searchguard.ssl.transport

Interface PrincipalExtractor

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultPrincipalExtractor

public interface PrincipalExtractor

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static class	PrincipalExtractor.Type

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	extractPrincipal(X509Certificate x509Certificate, PrincipalExtractor.Type type) Extract the principal name Please note that this method gets called for principal extraction of other nodes as well as transport clients.

Method Detail

extractPrincipal

String extractPrincipal(X509Certificate x509Certificate,
                        PrincipalExtractor.Type type)

Extract the principal name Please note that this method gets called for principal extraction of other nodes as well as transport clients. It's up to the implementer to distinguish between them and handle them appropriately. Implementations must be public classes with a default public default constructor.

Parameters:

x509Certificate - The first X509 certificate in the peer certificate chain This can be null, in this case the method must also return null.

Returns:

The principal as string. This may be null in case where x509Certificate is null or the principal cannot be extracted because of any other circumstances.