org.apache.jackrabbit.servlet.login
Class NullLoginFilter

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.jackrabbit.servlet.login.AbstractLoginFilter
      org.apache.jackrabbit.servlet.login.NullLoginFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

javax.servlet.Filter

public class NullLoginFilter
extends AbstractLoginFilter

Login filter that always uses null credentials for logging in to the content repository. This is useful for example for public web sites where all repository access is performed using anonymous sessions. Another use case for this login filter is when login information is made available to the content repository through JAAS or some other out-of-band mechanism.

Since:

Apache Jackrabbit 1.6

Constructor Summary

NullLoginFilter()

Method Summary

protected Credentials

getCredentials(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Always returns null.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.jackrabbit.servlet.login.AbstractLoginFilter

destroy, doFilter, init

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

NullLoginFilter

public NullLoginFilter()

Method Detail

getCredentials

protected Credentials getCredentials(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Always returns null.

Specified by:

getCredentials in class AbstractLoginFilter

Parameters:

request - ignored

Returns:

null credentials