Interface AuthenticationConverter

All Known Implementing Classes:
BasicAuthenticationConverter, DelegatingAuthenticationConverter, OneTimeTokenAuthenticationConverter, Saml2AuthenticationTokenConverter

public interface AuthenticationConverter
A strategy used for converting from a HttpServletRequest to an Authentication of particular type. Used to authenticate with appropriate AuthenticationManager. If the result is null, then it signals that no authentication attempt should be made. It is also possible to throw AuthenticationException within the convert(HttpServletRequest) if there was invalid Authentication scheme value.
Since:
5.2.0
  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    convert(jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)
     
  • Method Details

    • convert

      Authentication convert(jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)