edu.vt.middleware.password
Interface Rule

All Known Subinterfaces:

CharacterRule

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCharacterRule, AbstractDictionaryRule, AbstractSequenceRule, AlphabeticalCharacterRule, AlphabeticalSequenceRule, CharacterCharacteristicsRule, DictionaryRule, DictionarySubstringRule, DigitCharacterRule, HistoryRule, LengthRule, LowercaseCharacterRule, NonAlphanumericCharacterRule, NumericalSequenceRule, QwertySequenceRule, RegexRule, RepeatCharacterRegexRule, RuleList, SourceRule, UppercaseCharacterRule, UsernameRule, WhitespaceRule

public interface Rule

Rule allows custom password rules to be created for determining whether or not a password is strong.

Version:

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

Author:

Middleware Services

Method Summary

RuleResult

validate(PasswordData passwordData) This returns whether or not the supplied password data meets the requirements of this rule.

Method Detail

validate

RuleResult validate(PasswordData passwordData)

This returns whether or not the supplied password data meets the requirements of this rule.

Parameters:

passwordData - PasswordData to verify (not null).

Returns:

RuleResult - details on password verification

Throws:

java.lang.NullPointerException - if the rule data is null.