edu.vt.middleware.password
Class RepeatCharacterRegexRule

java.lang.Object
  edu.vt.middleware.password.RegexRule
      edu.vt.middleware.password.RepeatCharacterRegexRule

All Implemented Interfaces:

Rule

public class RepeatCharacterRegexRule
extends RegexRule

RepeatCharacterRegexRule contains methods for determining if a password contains a duplicate ASCII keyboard sequence. See Pattern /p{ASCII}. The default sequence length is 5 characters.

• Sequences are of the form: 'bbbbb' or '#####'

Version:

$Revision: 1842 $ $Date: 2011-02-25 14:16:58 -0500 (Fri, 25 Feb 2011) $

Author:

Middleware Services

Field Summary

static int	DEFAULT_SEQUENCE_LENGTH Default length of sequence, value is 5.
static int	MINIMUM_SEQUENCE_LENGTH Minimum length of sequence, value is 3.

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

pattern

Constructor Summary

RepeatCharacterRegexRule()
This creates a new RepeatCharacterRegexRule with the default sequence length.

RepeatCharacterRegexRule(int sl)
This creates a new RepeatCharacterRegexRule with the supplied sequence length setting.

Method Summary

protected java.lang.String

getRuleResultDetail(java.util.regex.Matcher m) Returns the message to set on the rule result detail.

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

toString, validate

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

DEFAULT_SEQUENCE_LENGTH

public static final int DEFAULT_SEQUENCE_LENGTH

Default length of sequence, value is 5.

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Constant Field Values

MINIMUM_SEQUENCE_LENGTH

public static final int MINIMUM_SEQUENCE_LENGTH

Minimum length of sequence, value is 3.

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

RepeatCharacterRegexRule

public RepeatCharacterRegexRule()

This creates a new RepeatCharacterRegexRule with the default sequence length.

RepeatCharacterRegexRule

public RepeatCharacterRegexRule(int sl)

This creates a new RepeatCharacterRegexRule with the supplied sequence length setting.

Parameters:

sl - int sequence length

Method Detail

getRuleResultDetail

protected java.lang.String getRuleResultDetail(java.util.regex.Matcher m)

Returns the message to set on the rule result detail.

Overrides:

getRuleResultDetail in class RegexRule

Parameters:

m - Matcher that found a match

Returns:

String result detail