Class Overview
The class PasswordAuthentication is a data holder that is used by
Authenticator. It is simply a repository for a user name and a password.
Summary
Public Constructors |
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PasswordAuthentication(String userName, char[] password)
Creates a new PasswordAuthentication object from the given
user name and password.
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Inherited Methods |
From class
java.lang.Object
Object
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clone()
Creates and returns a copy of this object.
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boolean
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equals(Object obj)
Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.
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void
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finalize()
Called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collection
determines that there are no more references to the object.
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final
Class<?>
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getClass()
Returns the runtime class of this Object .
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int
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hashCode()
Returns a hash code value for the object.
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final
void
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notify()
Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's
monitor.
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final
void
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notifyAll()
Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor.
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String
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toString()
Returns a string representation of the object.
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final
void
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wait()
Causes the current thread to wait until another thread invokes the
notify() method or the
notifyAll() method for this object.
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final
void
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wait(long timeout, int nanos)
Causes the current thread to wait until another thread invokes the
notify() method or the
notifyAll() method for this object, or
some other thread interrupts the current thread, or a certain
amount of real time has elapsed.
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final
void
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wait(long timeout)
Causes the current thread to wait until either another thread invokes the
notify() method or the
notifyAll() method for this object, or a
specified amount of time has elapsed.
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Public Constructors
public
PasswordAuthentication
(String userName, char[] password)
Creates a new PasswordAuthentication
object from the given
user name and password.
Note that the given user password is cloned before it is stored in
the new PasswordAuthentication
object.
Parameters
userName
| the user name |
password
| the user's password
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Public Methods
public
char[]
getPassword
()
Returns the user password.
Note that this method returns a reference to the password. It is
the caller's responsibility to zero out the password information after
it is no longer needed.