com.atlassian.sal.api.auth

Interface AuthenticationController

public interface AuthenticationController

Allows the host application to communicate about when authentication should be performed and users allowed to login.

Since:

2.0

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	canLogin(Principal principal, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Check whether the given principal can log into the application for the current request.
boolean	shouldAttemptAuthentication(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Check whether or not authentication should be tried.

Method Detail

shouldAttemptAuthentication

boolean shouldAttemptAuthentication(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Check whether or not authentication should be tried. Typically this will return true if the current principal is not already authenticated.

Parameters:

request - the current HttpServletRequest

Returns:

true if authentication should be tried, false otherwise.

canLogin

boolean canLogin(Principal principal,
                 javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Check whether the given principal can log into the application for the current request.

Parameters:

principal - the identified principal

request - the current HttpServletRequest

Returns:

true if the principal is allowed to login for the given request, false otherwise.