IBM WebSphere Application ServerTM
Release 8

com.ibm.wsspi.wssecurity.auth.callback
Class GUIPromptCallbackHandler

java.lang.Object
  extended by com.ibm.websphere.security.auth.callback.WSGUICallbackHandlerImpl
      extended by com.ibm.wsspi.wssecurity.auth.callback.GUIPromptCallbackHandler
All Implemented Interfaces:
javax.security.auth.callback.CallbackHandler

public class GUIPromptCallbackHandler
extends com.ibm.websphere.security.auth.callback.WSGUICallbackHandlerImpl

The GUIPromptCallbackHandler gathers the authentication data from the GUI and pushs the data to the login module. These data includes principal name and password. If the realm name can not be determined at the time of the login prompt, a "<default>" realm name will be displayed.

Supported Callbacks:

Since:
1.0
Version:
1.0
See Also:
NameCallback, PasswordCallback

Constructor Summary
GUIPromptCallbackHandler()
          Constructor with no parameters.
GUIPromptCallbackHandler(java.lang.String userid, char[] password, java.util.Map properties)
          Constructs a GUIPromptCallbackHandler using userid, password and properties parameters.
 
Method Summary
 void handle(javax.security.auth.callback.Callback[] callbacks)
          Invokes the callback handlers specified to collect the username and password data.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

GUIPromptCallbackHandler

public GUIPromptCallbackHandler()
Constructor with no parameters.


GUIPromptCallbackHandler

public GUIPromptCallbackHandler(java.lang.String userid,
                                char[] password,
                                java.util.Map properties)
Constructs a GUIPromptCallbackHandler using userid, password and properties parameters. The parameters should include only stateless information.

Parameters:
userid - The user name.
password - The user password.
properties - A set of name-value pairs.
Method Detail

handle

public void handle(javax.security.auth.callback.Callback[] callbacks)
            throws java.io.IOException,
                   javax.security.auth.callback.UnsupportedCallbackException
Invokes the callback handlers specified to collect the username and password data. Uses the prompt strings of each callback object passed the the method. If no prompt string is supplied, a default prompt string is used.

Specified by:
handle in interface javax.security.auth.callback.CallbackHandler
Overrides:
handle in class com.ibm.websphere.security.auth.callback.WSGUICallbackHandlerImpl
Parameters:
callbacks - An array of Callback objects provided by the underlying security service which contains the information requested to be retrieved or displayed.
Throws:
java.io.IOException - If an input or output error occurs.
javax.security.auth.callback.UnsupportedCallbackException - If the implementation of this method does not support one or more of the Callbacks specified in the callbacks parameter.

IBM WebSphere Application ServerTM
Release 8