org.jasig.cas.validation
Interface Assertion

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

ImmutableAssertionImpl

public interface Assertion
extends Serializable

Return from CentralAuthenticationService.validateServiceTicket(String, Service), the Assertion contains a chain of Principal objects. The first is the User's login Principal, while any others are Proxy Principals.

Since:

3.0

This is a published and supported CAS Server 3 API.

Version:

$Revision$ $Date$

Author:

Scott Battaglia

Method Summary

List<Authentication>	getChainedAuthentications() Get a List of Authentications which represent the owners of the GrantingTickets which granted the ticket that was validated.
Service	getService() Method to obtain the service for which we are asserting this ticket is valid for.
boolean	isFromNewLogin() True if the validated ticket was granted in the same transaction as that in which its grantor GrantingTicket was originally issued.

Method Detail

getChainedAuthentications

List<Authentication> getChainedAuthentications()

Get a List of Authentications which represent the owners of the GrantingTickets which granted the ticket that was validated. The first Authentication of this list is the Authentication which originally authenticated to CAS to obtain the first Granting Ticket. Subsequent Authentication are those associated with GrantingTickets that were granted from that original granting ticket. The last Authentication in this List is that associated with the GrantingTicket that was the immediate grantor of the ticket that was validated. The List returned by this method will contain at least one Authentication.

Returns:

a List of Authentication

isFromNewLogin

boolean isFromNewLogin()

True if the validated ticket was granted in the same transaction as that in which its grantor GrantingTicket was originally issued.

Returns:

true if validated ticket was granted simultaneous with its grantor's issuance

getService

Service getService()

Method to obtain the service for which we are asserting this ticket is valid for.

Returns:

the service for which we are asserting this ticket is valid for.