edu.vt.middleware.password
Interface Rule

All Known Subinterfaces:

CharacterRule

All Known Implementing Classes:

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

public interface Rule

Interface for password strength rules.

Version:

$Revision: 1920 $ $Date: 2011-04-21 11:17:30 -0400 (Thu, 21 Apr 2011) $

Author:

Middleware Services

Method Summary

RuleResult

validate(PasswordData passwordData) Validates the supplied password data per the requirements of this rule.

Method Detail

validate

RuleResult validate(PasswordData passwordData)

Validates the supplied password data per the requirements of this rule.

Parameters:

passwordData - to verify (not null).

Returns:

details on password verification

Throws:

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