com.entrust.toolkit.credentials

Interface GenericIdentityFilter

public interface GenericIdentityFilter

A GenericIdentityFilter is used by GenericIdentities to determine if an identity matches the identity sought after by the caller. If a identity is acceptable, this method will return true, if not acceptable it will return false.

Since:

9.0

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	acceptIdentity(GenericIdentity identity) This method is used to determine if a identity is acceptable based on criteria that is defined by this method.
java.lang.Object	getObject() This method allows the filter to use an additional parameter in the acceptance criteria.

Method Detail

acceptIdentity

boolean acceptIdentity(GenericIdentity identity)

This method is used to determine if a identity is acceptable based on criteria that is defined by this method. If an identity is acceptable, this method will return true, if not acceptable it will return false.

Parameters:

identity - The identity that will be checked for acceptability

getObject

java.lang.Object getObject()

This method allows the filter to use an additional parameter in the acceptance criteria.

Returns:

the object