Class: User (in Authentication)

• Inheritance
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• Class protocol
  • instance creation
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • comparing

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Authentication::User

Package:

stx:goodies/authentication

Category:

Net-Authentication

Version:

rev: 1.6 date: 2021/01/20 15:29:31

user: cg

file: Authentication__User.st directory: goodies/authentication

module: stx stc-classLibrary: authentication

Description:

This is a user that can be authenticated.


[instance variables:]
    name                        String      the name of the user
    realm                       String      the administartive realm of the user
    authenticationMechanisms    Collection  the different authentication mechanisms used to authenticate the user.
                                            They contain the password/secret.

[class variables:]

copyright
COPYRIGHT (c) 2006 by eXept Software AG
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Class protocol:

 realm: realmString name: nameString secret: secretString

create a user and add the data for all implemented mechanism

Instance protocol:

 authenticationMechanisms

 authenticationMechanisms: something

 mechanismFor: aMechanismName

answer the authentication mechanism representing aMechanismClassname,
or nil

 name

 name: something

 realm

 realm: something

 secret: aSecretString

create authentication data for all known mechanisms

 = aUser

(comment from inherited method)
return true if the receiver and the arg have the same structure.
Notice:
This method is partially open coded (inlined) by the compiler(s)
identical objects are always considered equal.
redefining it may not work as expected.

 hash

(comment from inherited method)
return an Integer useful as a hash key for the receiver.
This hash should return same values for objects with same
contents (i.e. use this to hash on structure)