Package net.shibboleth.shared.security.impl

Class RandomIdentifierGenerationStrategy

java.lang.Object

net.shibboleth.shared.security.impl.RandomIdentifierGenerationStrategy

All Implemented Interfaces:

IdentifierGenerationStrategy

Direct Known Subclasses:

SecureRandomIdentifierGenerationStrategy

@ThreadSafe
public class RandomIdentifierGenerationStrategy
extends Object
implements IdentifierGenerationStrategy

Generates a random number of bytes via a Random source and encodes them into a string using a BinaryEncoder (Hex by default).

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface net.shibboleth.shared.security.IdentifierGenerationStrategy

IdentifierGenerationStrategy.ParameterSpec, IdentifierGenerationStrategy.ProviderType

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
private final org.apache.commons.codec.BinaryEncoder	encoder	Encoder used to convert the random bytes in to a string.
private final RandomGenerator	random	Random number generator.
private final int	sizeOfIdentifier	Number of random bytes in the identifier.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
RandomIdentifierGenerationStrategy()	Default constructor.
RandomIdentifierGenerationStrategy(IdentifierGenerationStrategy.ParameterSpec params)	Constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	generateIdentifier()	Generates an identifier guaranteed to be XML ID safe.
String	generateIdentifier(boolean xmlSafe)	Generates an identifier.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Details

random

@Nonnull
private final RandomGenerator random

Random number generator.

sizeOfIdentifier

private final int sizeOfIdentifier

Number of random bytes in the identifier.

encoder

@Nonnull
private final org.apache.commons.codec.BinaryEncoder encoder

Encoder used to convert the random bytes in to a string.

Constructor Details

RandomIdentifierGenerationStrategy

public RandomIdentifierGenerationStrategy()

Default constructor.

Initializes the random number source to a new SecureRandom, size of identifier is set to 16 bytes, and the encoder is set to a Hex.

RandomIdentifierGenerationStrategy

public RandomIdentifierGenerationStrategy(@Nonnull
 IdentifierGenerationStrategy.ParameterSpec params)
                                   throws InvalidAlgorithmParameterException

Constructor.

Parameters:

params - parameter object, must be a RandomIdentifierParameterSpec

Throws:

InvalidAlgorithmParameterException - if the parameters are invalid

Method Details

generateIdentifier

@Nonnull
@NotEmpty
public String generateIdentifier()

Generates an identifier guaranteed to be XML ID safe.

Specified by:

generateIdentifier in interface IdentifierGenerationStrategy

Returns:

the identifier

generateIdentifier

@Nonnull
@NotEmpty
public String generateIdentifier(boolean xmlSafe)

Generates an identifier.

Specified by:

generateIdentifier in interface IdentifierGenerationStrategy

Parameters:

xmlSafe - true iff the result must be XML ID safe

Returns:

the identifier