org.jboss.web.tomcat.security: public class: CustomPrincipalValve

org.jboss.web.tomcat.security
public class: CustomPrincipalValve [javadoc | source]

java.lang.Object
   org.apache.catalina.valves.ValveBase
      org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.CustomPrincipalValve

Deprecated! this - should be removed now that the tomcat GenericPrincipal supports a custom user principal.

A valve that associates the Principal as obtained from the authentication layer with the request. This allows any custom principal established by the authentication layer to be seen by the web app.

author: Scott.Stark - @jboss.org

version: $ - Revision: 43335 $

Method from org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.CustomPrincipalValve Summary:
invoke

Methods from java.lang.Object:
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method from org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.CustomPrincipalValve Detail:
public void invoke(Request request, Response response) throws IOException, ServletException { Principal user = request.getUserPrincipal(); if( user instanceof JBossGenericPrincipal ) { // Restore the actual principal to the request JBossGenericPrincipal guser = (JBossGenericPrincipal) user; Principal realUser = guser.getCallerPrincipal(); request.setUserPrincipal(realUser); } getNext().invoke(request, response); } Deprecated!

Method from org.jboss.web.tomcat.security.CustomPrincipalValve Detail:

 public  void invoke(Request request,
    Response response) throws IOException, ServletException {
      Principal user = request.getUserPrincipal();
      if( user instanceof JBossGenericPrincipal )
      {
         // Restore the actual principal to the request
         JBossGenericPrincipal guser = (JBossGenericPrincipal) user;
         Principal realUser = guser.getCallerPrincipal();
         request.setUserPrincipal(realUser);
      }
      getNext().invoke(request, response);
}

Deprecated!