uk.ac.soton.itinnovation.grid.gridservit.context.helpers
Class AuthenticatedContextHelper

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.soton.itinnovation.grid.gridservit.context.helpers.AuthenticatedContextHelper

public class AuthenticatedContextHelper
extends Object

Constructor Summary

AuthenticatedContextHelper()

Method Summary

static SubjectDescription	getAuthenticatedContext(MessageContext axisMsgCtx) Returns the authenticated subject context from an Axis Message Context.
static SubjectDescription	getCurrentUser() Get the identity of the user who signed this SOAP request.
static void	setAuthenticatedSubjectContext(MessageContext axisMsgCtx, SubjectDescription authenticatedSubjectContext) Sets the authenticated context in the Axis Message Context.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

AuthenticatedContextHelper

public AuthenticatedContextHelper()

Method Detail

getCurrentUser

public static SubjectDescription getCurrentUser()
                                         throws ContextUnavailableException

Get the identity of the user who signed this SOAP request. Calls getAuthenticatedContext() on the current message context.

Throws:

ContextUnavailableException

getAuthenticatedContext

public static SubjectDescription getAuthenticatedContext(MessageContext axisMsgCtx)
                                                  throws ContextUnavailableException

Returns the authenticated subject context from an Axis Message Context. This method just returns the value set using setAuthenticatedSubjectContext().

Throws:

ContextUnavailableException - if setAuthenticatedSubjectContext was not called

setAuthenticatedSubjectContext

public static void setAuthenticatedSubjectContext(MessageContext axisMsgCtx,
                                                  SubjectDescription authenticatedSubjectContext)

Sets the authenticated context in the Axis Message Context. This is the subject that signed the SOAP body and the resourceID SOAP header element (if any) with a single signature.

Parameters:

authenticatedSubjectContext - the subject who created the signature