org.apache.manifoldcf.core.interfaces

Interface IPasswordMapperActivity

All Known Subinterfaces:

IHTTPOutput, IPostParameters

All Known Implementing Classes:

JspWrapper, MultipartWrapper

public interface IPasswordMapperActivity

This interface abstracts from password mapping activity, available for all connector-provided UI components. Passwords should not appear in any data sent from the crawler UI to the browser. The following methods are provided to assist the connector UI components in this task. A connector coder should use these services as follows: - When the password would ordinarily be put into a form element as the current password, instead use mapPasswordToKey() to create a key and put that in instead. - When the "password" is posted, and the post is processed, use mapKeyToPassword() to restore the correct password.

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static java.lang.String	_rcsid

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	mapKeyToPassword(java.lang.String key) Convert a key, created by mapPasswordToKey, back to the original password, within the lifetime of the browser session.
java.lang.String	mapPasswordToKey(java.lang.String password) Map a password to a unique key.

Field Detail

_rcsid

static final java.lang.String _rcsid

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

mapPasswordToKey

java.lang.String mapPasswordToKey(java.lang.String password)

Map a password to a unique key. This method works within a specific given browser session to replace an existing password with a key which can be used to look up the password at a later time.

Parameters:

password - is the password.

Returns:

the key.

mapKeyToPassword

java.lang.String mapKeyToPassword(java.lang.String key)

Convert a key, created by mapPasswordToKey, back to the original password, within the lifetime of the browser session. If the provided key is not an actual key, instead the key value is assumed to be a new password value.

Parameters:

key - is the key.

Returns:

the password.