org.springframework.security.oauth2.provider.token
Interface UserAuthenticationConverter

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultUserAuthenticationConverter

public interface UserAuthenticationConverter

Utility interface for converting a user authentication to and from a Map.

Author:

Dave Syer

Method Summary

Map<String,?>	convertUserAuthentication(org.springframework.security.core.Authentication userAuthentication) Extract information about the user to be used in an access token (i.e.
org.springframework.security.core.Authentication	extractAuthentication(Map<String,?> map) Inverse of convertUserAuthentication(Authentication).

Method Detail

convertUserAuthentication

Map<String,?> convertUserAuthentication(org.springframework.security.core.Authentication userAuthentication)

Extract information about the user to be used in an access token (i.e. for resource servers).

Parameters:

userAuthentication - an authentication representing a user

Returns:

a map of key values representing the unique information about the user

extractAuthentication

org.springframework.security.core.Authentication extractAuthentication(Map<String,?> map)

Inverse of convertUserAuthentication(Authentication). Extracts an Authentication from a map.

Parameters:

map - a map of user information

Returns:

an Authentication representing the user or null if there is none