edu.vt.middleware.password
Class AlphabeticalCharacterRule

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

CharacterRule, Rule

public class AlphabeticalCharacterRule
extends AbstractCharacterRule

Rule for determining if a password contains the correct number of alphabetical 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

ERROR_CODE, numCharacters

Constructor Summary

AlphabeticalCharacterRule()
Default constructor.

AlphabeticalCharacterRule(int num)
Creates a new alphabetical character rule.

Method Summary

protected String	getCharacterType() Returns the type of character managed by this rule.
protected int	getNumberOfCharacterType(Password password) Returns the number of the type of characters in the supplied password for the implementing class.
String	getValidCharacters() Returns the characters that are considered valid for this rule.

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

createRuleResultDetailParameters, getNumberOfCharacters, setNumberOfCharacters, toString, validate

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AlphabeticalCharacterRule

public AlphabeticalCharacterRule()

Default constructor.

AlphabeticalCharacterRule

public AlphabeticalCharacterRule(int num)

Creates a new alphabetical character rule.

Parameters:

num - of alphabetical characters to enforce

Method Detail

getValidCharacters

public String getValidCharacters()

Returns the characters that are considered valid for this rule.

Returns:

valid characters

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 - to get character count from

Returns:

number of characters

getCharacterType

protected String getCharacterType()

Returns the type of character managed by this rule.

Specified by:

getCharacterType in class AbstractCharacterRule

Returns:

name of a character type, e.g. "digits."