edu.vt.middleware.password
Class DictionaryRule

java.lang.Object
  edu.vt.middleware.password.AbstractDictionaryRule
      edu.vt.middleware.password.DictionaryRule

All Implemented Interfaces:

Rule

public class DictionaryRule
extends AbstractDictionaryRule

DictionaryRule determines if a password matches a dictionary word. The checker will optionally also check for reversed words.

Version:

$Revision: 1841 $ $Date: 2011-02-25 14:05:47 -0500 (Fri, 25 Feb 2011) $

Author:

Middleware Services

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class edu.vt.middleware.password.AbstractDictionaryRule

dictionary, matchBackwards

Constructor Summary

DictionaryRule()
This creates a new a new DictionaryRule without supplying a dictionary.

DictionaryRule(edu.vt.middleware.dictionary.Dictionary dict)
This creates a new DictionaryRule with the supplied dictionary.

Method Summary

protected java.lang.String

doWordSearch(java.lang.String text) Searches the dictionary with the supplied text.

Methods inherited from class edu.vt.middleware.password.AbstractDictionaryRule

getDictionary, isMatchBackwards, setDictionary, setMatchBackwards, toString, validate

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DictionaryRule

public DictionaryRule()

This creates a new a new DictionaryRule without supplying a dictionary. The dictionary should be set using the AbstractDictionaryRule.setDictionary(Dictionary) method.

DictionaryRule

public DictionaryRule(edu.vt.middleware.dictionary.Dictionary dict)

This creates a new DictionaryRule with the supplied dictionary. The dictionary should be ready to use when passed to this constructor.

Parameters:

dict - Dictionary to use for searching

Method Detail

doWordSearch

protected java.lang.String doWordSearch(java.lang.String text)

Searches the dictionary with the supplied text.

Specified by:

doWordSearch in class AbstractDictionaryRule

Parameters:

text - to search dictionary with

Returns:

String matching word