org.apache.commons.vfs2

Interface UserAuthenticator

All Known Implementing Classes:

StaticUserAuthenticator

public interface UserAuthenticator

The user authenticator is used to query credentials from the user. Since a UserAuthenticator is provided with the FileSystemOptions to a FileSystem it should also implement reasonable equals and hashCode functions if the FileSystem should be shared.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
UserAuthenticationData	requestAuthentication(UserAuthenticationData.Type[] types) Queries the given type from the user.

Method Detail

requestAuthentication

UserAuthenticationData requestAuthentication(UserAuthenticationData.Type[] types)

Queries the given type from the user.

Parameters:

types - An array containing the user's credentials

Returns:

The UserAuthenticationData.