io.earcam.utilitarian.web.jaxrs

Class BasicAuthenticator

java.lang.Object

io.earcam.utilitarian.web.jaxrs.BasicAuthenticator

All Implemented Interfaces:

javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestFilter

public class BasicAuthenticator
extends Object
implements javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestFilter

A JAX-RS client filter providing support for the Basic Authentication form of HTTP Authentication scheme.

Note: unfortunately implementations (e.g. Jersey) don't acknowledge the risks of interned String passwords by allowing the header value to be set as a char array. This is likely due to API design, e.g. RuntimeDelegate.HeaderDelegate

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
BasicAuthenticator(String username, String password)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	filter(javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestContext requestContext)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

BasicAuthenticator

public BasicAuthenticator(String username,
                          String password)

Method Detail

filter

public void filter(javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestContext requestContext)
            throws IOException

Specified by:

filter in interface javax.ws.rs.client.ClientRequestFilter

Throws:

IOException