com.cyberark.conjur.api

Interface AuthnProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

AuthnClient, AuthnTokenClient

public interface AuthnProvider

Provides Conjur authentication tokens.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Token	authenticate() Return an authentication token.
Token	authenticate(boolean useCachedToken) Return an authentication token.

Method Detail

authenticate

Token authenticate()

Return an authentication token. This method should be equivalent to authenticate(true) if the implementation supports token caching.

Returns:

a Conjur authentication token

authenticate

Token authenticate(boolean useCachedToken)

Return an authentication token. If the implementation supports token caching and useCachedToken is true, it should return a cached token if a valid (non-expired) one is available. If useCachedToken is false, it should always fetch a fresh token from the Conjur authn service.

Parameters:

useCachedToken - whether to use a cached token.

Returns:

a Conjur authentication token