com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials
Class ActiveCredential

java.lang.Object
  com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.Credential
      com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.ActiveCredential

All Implemented Interfaces:

ActiveCredential, Credential, java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

BinaryCredential, JaasSubjectCredential, UserPasswordCredential

Deprecated. since 6.0. Support of the IBM portlet API may be removed in a future release of WebSphere Portal. Use of the Java Portlet API (javax.portlet) is recommended instead.

public abstract class ActiveCredential
extends Credential
implements ActiveCredential

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:

WP 5.1.0.1

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

LOGGER_NAME, secret

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

KEY_CREDENTIAL_SECRET

Constructor Summary

ActiveCredential()
Deprecated.

Method Summary

boolean

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

Methods inherited from class com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

checkInitialized, getSecretType, init

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

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

getSecretType, init

Constructor Detail

ActiveCredential

public ActiveCredential()

Deprecated.

Method Detail

isActive

public final boolean isActive()

Deprecated.

Returns whether a credential is active or passive.

Specified by:

isActive in interface ActiveCredential

Specified by:

isActive in interface Credential

Overrides:

isActive in class Credential

Returns:

boolean always returns true

See Also:

PassiveCredential, ActiveCredential