Package eu.webtoolkit.jwt.auth

Class AbstractPasswordService.AbstractStrengthValidator

java.lang.Object

eu.webtoolkit.jwt.WValidator

eu.webtoolkit.jwt.auth.AbstractPasswordService.AbstractStrengthValidator

Direct Known Subclasses:

PasswordStrengthValidator

Enclosing interface:

AbstractPasswordService

public abstract static class AbstractPasswordService.AbstractStrengthValidator
extends WValidator

Validator for password strength.

This class defines a specialized validator interface for evaluating password strength. The implementation allows to evaluate strength in addition to the normal validator functionality of validating a password.

The evaluateStrength() computes the strength and returns an instance of StrenghtValidatorResult which contains information on the validity and the strength of the password together with possible messages.

See Also:

• AbstractPasswordService.getStrengthValidator()

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class eu.webtoolkit.jwt.WValidator

WValidator.Result

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
AbstractStrengthValidator()	Constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract AbstractPasswordService.StrengthValidatorResult	evaluateStrength(String password, String loginName, String email)	Evaluates the strength of a password.
WValidator.Result	validate(String password)	Validates a password.
WValidator.Result	validate(String password, String loginName, String email)	Validates a password.

Methods inherited from class eu.webtoolkit.jwt.WValidator

getFormat, getInputFilter, getInvalidBlankText, getJavaScriptValidate, isMandatory, setInvalidBlankText, setMandatory

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Details

AbstractStrengthValidator

public AbstractStrengthValidator()

Constructor.

Method Details

evaluateStrength

public abstract AbstractPasswordService.StrengthValidatorResult evaluateStrength(String password,
 String loginName,
 String email)

Evaluates the strength of a password.

The result is an instance of AbstractPasswordService.StrengthValidatorResult which contains information on the validity and the strength of the password together with possible messages.

The validator may take into account the user's login name and email address, to exclude passwords that are too similar to these.

validate

public WValidator.Result validate(String password,
 String loginName,
 String email)

Validates a password.

This uses evaluateStrength(), isValid() and message() to return the result of password validation.

validate

public WValidator.Result validate(String password)

Validates a password.

Calls validate(password, WString.Empty, "");

Overrides:

validate in class WValidator