edu.vt.middleware.password
Class UppercaseCharacterRule

java.lang.Object
  edu.vt.middleware.password.AbstractCharacterRule
      edu.vt.middleware.password.UppercaseCharacterRule

All Implemented Interfaces:

CharacterRule, Rule

public class UppercaseCharacterRule
extends AbstractCharacterRule

UppercaseCharacterRule contains methods for determining if a password contains the correct number of uppercase characters.

Version:

$Revision: 1636 $ $Date: 2010-10-04 11:12:15 -0400 (Mon, 04 Oct 2010) $

Author:

Middleware Services

Field Summary

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

numCharacters

Constructor Summary

UppercaseCharacterRule()
Default constructor.

UppercaseCharacterRule(int num)
This will create a new UppercaseCharacterRule with the supplied number of uppercase characters to enforce.

Method Summary

protected int	getNumberOfCharacterType(Password password) Returns the number of the type of characters in the supplied password for the implementing class.
protected java.lang.String	getRuleResultDetailMessage() Returns the detail message for the implementing class should this rule fail validation.
java.lang.String	getValidCharacters() Returns the characters that are considered valid for this rule.

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

getNumberOfCharacters, setNumberOfCharacters, toString, validate

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

UppercaseCharacterRule

public UppercaseCharacterRule()

Default constructor.

UppercaseCharacterRule

public UppercaseCharacterRule(int num)

This will create a new UppercaseCharacterRule with the supplied number of uppercase characters to enforce.

Parameters:

num - int

Method Detail

getValidCharacters

public java.lang.String getValidCharacters()

Returns the characters that are considered valid for this rule.

Returns:

char[]

getNumberOfCharacterType

protected int getNumberOfCharacterType(Password password)

Returns the number of the type of characters in the supplied password for the implementing class.

Specified by:

getNumberOfCharacterType in class AbstractCharacterRule

Parameters:

password - Password to get character count from

Returns:

int number of characters

getRuleResultDetailMessage

protected java.lang.String getRuleResultDetailMessage()

Returns the detail message for the implementing class should this rule fail validation.

Specified by:

getRuleResultDetailMessage in class AbstractCharacterRule

Returns:

String detail message