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

All Superinterfaces:

Credential, PassiveCredential

All Known Implementing Classes:

JaasSubjectPassiveCredential

public interface JaasSubjectPassiveCredential
extends PassiveCredential

This Credential is only a container of the user's secret. Portlets may call the getSecret() method in order to obtain and work with this secret.

Since:

5.1.0.1

Field Summary

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

KEY_CREDENTIAL_SECRET

Method Summary

javax.security.auth.Subject	getSecret() Returns the user's secret as an Jaas Subject.
int	getSecretType() Returns credential's Secret Type in terms of the constants declared in (@link CredentialSecret) Should be overwritten by any child class that "overwrites" the secret attribute.
void	init(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> config) Initializes a new JaasSubjectPassiveCredential.

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

isActive

Method Detail

init

void init(java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object> config)
          throws CredentialVaultException

Initializes a new JaasSubjectPassiveCredential.

Specified by:

init in interface Credential

Parameters:

config - The configuration needed to initialize this credential:

• KEY_CREDENTIAL_SECRET JaasSubjectCredentialSecret - the credential's secret (mandatory)

Throws:

CredentialVaultException - If any mandatory parameter is missing or has a wrong object type as value.

getSecretType

int getSecretType()

Returns credential's Secret Type in terms of the constants declared in (@link CredentialSecret)
Should be overwritten by any child class that "overwrites" the secret attribute.

Specified by:

getSecretType in interface Credential

Returns:

int Credential Secret type identifier

See Also:

CredentialVaultService

getSecret

javax.security.auth.Subject getSecret()

Returns the user's secret as an Jaas Subject.

Returns:

Subject The user's secret.