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

Rule for determining if a password matches a dictionary word. This rule will optionally also check for reversed words.

Version:

$Revision: 1926 $ $Date: 2011-04-26 15:52:24 -0400 (Tue, 26 Apr 2011) $

Author:

Middleware Services

Field Summary

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

dictionary, ERROR_CODE, ERROR_CODE_REVERSED, matchBackwards

Constructor Summary

DictionaryRule()
Creates a new dictionary rule without supplying a dictionary.

DictionaryRule(edu.vt.middleware.dictionary.Dictionary dict)
Creates a new dictionary rule.

Method Summary

protected String

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

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

createRuleResultDetailParameters, 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()

Creates a new dictionary rule without supplying a dictionary. The dictionary should be set using AbstractDictionaryRule.setDictionary(Dictionary).

DictionaryRule

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

Creates a new dictionary rule. The dictionary should be ready to use when passed to this constructor.

Parameters:

dict - to use for searching

Method Detail

doWordSearch

protected String doWordSearch(String text)

Searches the dictionary with the supplied text.

Specified by:

doWordSearch in class AbstractDictionaryRule

Parameters:

text - to search dictionary with

Returns:

matching word