Class: AuthenticationData (in Authentication)

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Class protocol
  • instance creation
  • queries
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • comparing
  • storing

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Authentication::AuthenticationData
      |
      +--Authentication::BasicAuthenticator::BasicAuthenticationData
      |
      +--Authentication::DigestAuthenticator::DigestAuthenticationData

Package:

stx:goodies/authentication

Category:

Net-Authentication

Version:

rev: 1.5 date: 2009/11/09 13:55:52

user: stefan

file: Authentication__AuthenticationData.st directory: goodies/authentication

module: stx stc-classLibrary: authentication

Author:

Stefan Vogel (stefan@zwerg)

Description:

This is an abstract superclass.
Subclasses hold authentication data for a user (secret/password). 
Authenticators are repsonsible to authenticate this data.


[instance variables:]

[class variables:]

Related information:

    Authentication::Authenticator
    Authentication::User

Class protocol:

 newForUser: user secret: aSecretString

create an instance of myself with secret

 newMechanism: mechanismName

create an empty instance for a given mechanism

 mechanismName

answer the name of the mechanism as known in the protocols

** This method raises an error - it must be redefined in concrete classes **

Instance protocol:

 encodedSecret

 encodedSecret: something

 user: user secret: something

encode the secret for user and store it

** This method raises an error - it must be redefined in concrete classes **

 = authenticationData

 hash

 storeOn: aStream