org.jasig.cas.ticket.proxy

Interface ProxyHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

Cas10ProxyHandler, Cas20ProxyHandler

public interface ProxyHandler

Abstraction for what needs to be done to handle proxies. Useful because the generic flow for all authentication is similar the actions taken for proxying are different. One can swap in/out implementations but keep the flow of events the same.

Since:

3.0

Author:

Scott Battaglia, Misagh Moayyed

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	canHandle(Credential credential) Whether this handler can support the proxy request identified by the given credentials.
String	handle(Credential credential, String proxyGrantingTicketId) Method to actually process the proxy request.

Method Detail

handle

String handle(Credential credential,
            String proxyGrantingTicketId)

Method to actually process the proxy request.

Parameters:

credential - The credential of the item that will be proxying.

proxyGrantingTicketId - The ticketId for the ProxyGrantingTicket (in CAS 3 this is a TicketGrantingTicket)

Returns:

the String value that needs to be passed to the CAS client.

canHandle

boolean canHandle(Credential credential)

Whether this handler can support the proxy request identified by the given credentials.

Parameters:

credential - the credential object containing the proxy request details.

Returns:

true, if successful