com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials
Class PassiveCredential

java.lang.Object
  com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.Credential
      com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.PassiveCredential

All Implemented Interfaces:

Credential, PassiveCredential, java.io.Serializable

Direct Known Subclasses:

BinaryPassiveCredential, JaasSubjectPassiveCredential, SimplePassiveCredential, UserPasswordPassiveCredential

Deprecated. since 6.0. Support of the IBM portlet API may be removed in a future release of WebSphere Portal. Use of the Java Portlet API (javax.portlet) is recommended instead.

public abstract class PassiveCredential
extends Credential
implements PassiveCredential

A PassiveCredential is simply a container for an user's secret. The portlet extracts the secret out of the credential and does all the authentication (communication) at the backend itself.
This credential type is a fallback for those cases in which no active credential is provided (e.g. because the backend's authentication protocol is too specific). Preconditions:

• The configuration data passed to the constructor must define following values: KEY_USER_SECRET

Since:

WP 5.1.0.1

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

LOGGER_NAME, secret

Fields inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.portlet.service.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

KEY_CREDENTIAL_SECRET

Constructor Summary

PassiveCredential()
Deprecated.

Method Summary

boolean

isActive() Deprecated. Returns whether a credential is active or passive.

Methods inherited from class com.ibm.wps.portletservice.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

checkInitialized, getSecretType, init

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface com.ibm.portal.portlet.service.credentialvault.credentials.Credential

getSecretType, init

Constructor Detail

PassiveCredential

public PassiveCredential()

Deprecated.

Method Detail

isActive

public final boolean isActive()

Deprecated.

Returns whether a credential is active or passive.

Specified by:

isActive in interface Credential

Specified by:

isActive in interface PassiveCredential

Overrides:

isActive in class Credential

Returns:

boolean Always returns false

See Also:

PassiveCredential, ActiveCredential