Package de.stefanfrings.utils

Class ThreadLocalAuthenticator

java.lang.Object

java.net.Authenticator

de.stefanfrings.utils.ThreadLocalAuthenticator

public class ThreadLocalAuthenticator
extends Authenticator

This is a thread local implementation of an Authenticator for java.net classes. Each concurrent thread can use different credentials.

Example usage:

 ThreadLocalAuthenticator.setAsDefault();
 ThreadLocalAuthenticator.setServerAuth(username,password);
 URL url=new URL("http://webmailer.mycompany.de");
 InputStream stream=url.openConnection().getInputStream();
 

Author:

Stefan Frings, http://stefanfrings.de/javautils

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.net.Authenticator

Authenticator.RequestorType

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static ThreadLocalAuthenticator	getInstance()	Get the single instance of this class.
PasswordAuthentication	getPasswordAuthentication()	This method is called by the java.net classes, when connecting to a URL while the affected web server or proxy requests username and password.
static void	setAsDefault()	Set this Authenticator as default.
static void	setProxyAuth(String username, String password)	Set credentials for proxy server authentication.
static void	setServerAuth(String username, String password)	Set credentials for web server authentication.

Methods inherited from class java.net.Authenticator

getDefault, getRequestingHost, getRequestingPort, getRequestingPrompt, getRequestingProtocol, getRequestingScheme, getRequestingSite, getRequestingURL, getRequestorType, requestPasswordAuthentication, requestPasswordAuthentication, requestPasswordAuthentication, requestPasswordAuthentication, requestPasswordAuthenticationInstance, setDefault

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Details

setServerAuth

public static void setServerAuth(String username,
 String password)

Set credentials for web server authentication.

Parameters:

username - Username

password - Password

setProxyAuth

public static void setProxyAuth(String username,
 String password)

Set credentials for proxy server authentication.

Parameters:

username - Username

password - Password

getInstance

public static ThreadLocalAuthenticator getInstance()

Get the single instance of this class.

Returns:

The ThreadLocalAuthenticator

setAsDefault

public static void setAsDefault()

Set this Authenticator as default.

getPasswordAuthentication

public PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication()

This method is called by the java.net classes, when connecting to a URL while the affected web server or proxy requests username and password.

Overrides:

getPasswordAuthentication in class Authenticator

Returns:

An authentication with username and password, as previously set by setProxyAuth(java.lang.String, java.lang.String) and/or setServerAuth(java.lang.String, java.lang.String)