io.elastic.api

Interface CredentialsVerifier

public interface CredentialsVerifier

Interface to be implemented by components to verify user's credentials before they are persisted.

Typically a credentials verification is implemented by sending an arbitrary request to the given service and analyse the response. For example if the response's status code is HTTP 401 Unauthorized the verification failed.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	verify(com.google.gson.JsonObject configuration) Performs the verification credentials in the given configuration.

Method Detail

verify

void verify(com.google.gson.JsonObject configuration)
     throws InvalidCredentialsException

Performs the verification credentials in the given configuration. The configuration parameter is a JSON object containing either OAuth access token, API key or username/password combination provided by a user during authentication process. These values are to be verified by sending an arbitrary request to the desired service.

Parameters:

configuration - contains OAuth access token, API key, username/password to be verified

Throws:

InvalidCredentialsException - if the credentials are invalid