JwtAuthenticationService (Alpine 1.9.2 API)

java.lang.Object
- alpine.auth.JwtAuthenticationService

All Implemented Interfaces:

AuthenticationService
```
public class JwtAuthenticationService
extends Object
implements AuthenticationService
```
An AuthenticationService implementation for JWTs that authenticates users based on a token presented in the request. Tokens must be presented using the Authorization Bearer header.

Since:

1.0.0

Author:

Steve Springett

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor Description

JwtAuthenticationService(org.glassfish.jersey.server.ContainerRequest request)
Constructs a new JwtAuthenticationService.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Principal`	`authenticate()`	Defines an authentication method which returns a Principal if authentication is successful or an AuthorizationException if not.
`boolean`	`isSpecified()`	Defines a method which returns if the specified piece of data, required to perform authentication is present.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - JwtAuthenticationService
```
public JwtAuthenticationService(org.glassfish.jersey.server.ContainerRequest request)
```
    Constructs a new JwtAuthenticationService.
    
    Parameters:
    
    request - a ContainerRequest object to parse
- Method Detail
  - isSpecified
```
public boolean isSpecified()
```
    Defines a method which returns if the specified piece of data, required to perform authentication is present.
    
    Specified by:
    
    isSpecified in interface AuthenticationService
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the authentication data was specified, false if not
  - authenticate
```
public Principal authenticate()
                       throws AuthenticationException
```
    Defines an authentication method which returns a Principal if authentication is successful or an AuthorizationException if not.
    
    Specified by:
    
    authenticate in interface AuthenticationService
    
    Returns:
    
    a Principal of the authenticated user
    
    Throws:
    
    AuthenticationException - an authentication failure