com.ibm.portal.portlet.service.credentialvault.credentials
Interface ActiveCredential

All Superinterfaces:

Credential

All Known Subinterfaces:

BinaryCredential, HttpBasicAuthCredential, HttpFormBasedAuthCredential, JaasSubjectCredential, JavaMailCredential, LtpaTokenCredential, SiteMinderTokenCredential, SSMTokenCredential, UserPasswordCredential, WebSealTokenCredential

All Known Implementing Classes:

ActiveCredential, BinaryCredential, HttpBasicAuthCredential, HttpFormBasedAuthCredential, JaasSubjectCredential, JavaMailCredential, LtpaTokenCredential, SiteMinderTokenCredential, SSMTokenCredential, UserPasswordCredential, WebSealTokenCredential

Deprecated. Since 8.5.

public interface ActiveCredential
extends Credential

An Active Credential hides the user's secret from the portlet and does all the authentication (communication) for the portlet. Some of these credentials might provide login() and logout() methods (e.g. HttpFormBasedAuthenticationCredential) but some won't because the protocol doesn't support it (e.g. HttpBasicAuthCredential).
However, all subclasses will usually provide a getAuthenticatedConnection method that will be used by the portlet to get authenticated backend connections to work with.

Since:

5.1.0.1

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.portlet.service.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

KEY_CREDENTIAL_SECRET

Method Summary

boolean

isActive() Deprecated. Returns whether a credential is active or passive.

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.portlet.service.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

getSecretType, init

Method Detail

isActive

boolean isActive()

Deprecated.

Returns whether a credential is active or passive.

Specified by:

isActive in interface Credential

Returns:

boolean always returns true

See Also:

ActiveCredential, PassiveCredential