This class is for internal purpose only and is subjected to change. Developers are recommended not to use this API

com.adventnet.nms.client
Interface ValidateCredentials

public interface ValidateCredentials

ValidateCredentials is an interface to do a custom validation over the password field. The interface is defined with the single method validate(). The implementing class can do custom validation like to ensure the password is the combination of uppercase, lowercase and special characters etc. It needs to return false/true based on unsuccessful and successful validation and can show error dialog to the User at error condition and return false like public boolean validate(String userName,String oldPassword, String newPassword) { if(!isAlphaNumeric(newPassword)) { JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Password Should be Combination of Alpha-Numeric SPecial characters","Change Password",JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE); return false; } return true; } The implementation class need to be configured at client configuration file NMS_HOME/conf/clientparameters.conf file to the attribute 'Validator' like, The default implementation supports password length(MIN/MAX) validation which can be done by configuring the parameters PASSWD_MAX_LENGTH AND PASSWD_MIN_LENGTH in clientparameters.conf file itself.

Method Summary

boolean

validate(java.lang.String userName, java.lang.String oldPassword, java.lang.String newPassword) The WebNMS Client framework will invoke the method with neccessary arguments as username current password and new password.

Method Detail

validate

public boolean validate(java.lang.String userName,
                        java.lang.String oldPassword,
                        java.lang.String newPassword)

The WebNMS Client framework will invoke the method with neccessary arguments as username current password and new password. Further it does a custom validation over the the given new password for a given user.

Parameters:

userName - UserName

oldPassword - Current Password of the User

newPassword - New Password of the User

Returns:

boolean value as true if custom validation is successful or false otherwise.