Package org.wildfly.security.auth.realm.token

Interface TokenValidator

All Known Implementing Classes:

JwtValidator, OAuth2IntrospectValidator

public interface TokenValidator

A TokenValidator is responsible to validate a BearerTokenEvidence and support validation and transformation of different types of security tokens.

Author:

Pedro Igor

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Attributes	validate(BearerTokenEvidence evidence)	Validates a BearerTokenEvidence and returns an Attributes instance containing all information within a security token passed through evidence.

Method Details

validate

Attributes validate(BearerTokenEvidence evidence)
             throws RealmUnavailableException

Validates a BearerTokenEvidence and returns an Attributes instance containing all information within a security token passed through evidence.

Parameters:

evidence - a BearerTokenEvidence holding the security token to validate

Returns:

an Attributes instance containing all information from the security token, when valid. Otherwise, this method returns null to indicate that the security token is invalid

Throws:

RealmUnavailableException - if any error occurs when validating the evidence