com.sun.enterprise.security.auth

Interface PrincipalMapper

public interface PrincipalMapper

Enables formatting of principal retrieved from message eg: P-Asserted-Identity values. eg: "Cullen Jennings" value can be mapped/formatted to "CullenJ".

Author:

k.venugopal@sun.com

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	initialize(Properties props)
Principal[]	mapIdentity(Principal[] assrtId) converts values in to a format understood by the container/container backend eg: database, ldap etc.

Method Detail

initialize

void initialize(Properties props)

mapIdentity

Principal[] mapIdentity(Principal[] assrtId)

converts values in to a format understood by the container/container backend eg: database, ldap etc.

Parameters:

assrtId - P-Asserted-Identity values.

Returns:

P-Asserted-Identity values in a format understood by the container.