org.springframework.richclient.security
Interface AuthenticationAware

All Known Subinterfaces:

SecurityController

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractSecurityController, BasicAuthCommonsHttpInvokerProxyFactoryBean, BasicAuthHttpInvokerProxyFactoryBean, BasicAuthHttpInvokerRequestExecutor, UserRoleSecurityController

public interface AuthenticationAware

A Spring managed bean implementing this interface will be automatically notified of any change in the user's Authentication token. This would happen after various security related operations like login and logout. Any bean implementing this interface will have setAuthenticationToken(Authentication) called when it is created and subsequently whenever the user's authentication token changes.

In order for this notification to take place, a singleton, non-lazy instance of SecurityAwareConfigurer must be defined in the Spring ApplicationContext. See SecurityAwareConfigurer for configuration details.

If a class needs to track the actual security event lifecycle, then it should implement ApplicationListener and watch for instances of ClientSecurityEvent events.

Author:

Larry Streepy

See Also:

AuthenticationManager.authenticate(org.acegisecurity.Authentication), ApplicationListener, LoginAware, ClientSecurityEvent, SecurityAwareConfigurer

Method Summary

void	setAuthenticationToken(org.acegisecurity.Authentication authentication) Notifies listener of the new (current) Authentication token for the user.

Method Detail

setAuthenticationToken

void setAuthenticationToken(org.acegisecurity.Authentication authentication)

Notifies listener of the new (current) Authentication token for the user. This may be null if the authentication state is unknown (as it may be when the Application context is being constructed) or after a user logs out.

Parameters:

authentication - token