com.ibm.as400.security.auth

Interface ProfileTokenProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultProfileTokenProvider

public interface ProfileTokenProvider

Defines an interface for providing a ProfileTokenCredential to an AS400 object. This interface is used when an AS400 object is given the responsibility of managing the life cycle of a user's profile token credential. Management of this credential by the AS400 object may require a new profile token to be created; this is accomplished via a class that implements this interface.

See Also:

AS400.AS400(String, ProfileTokenProvider), AS400.AS400(String, ProfileTokenProvider, int)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ProfileTokenCredential	create() Creates and returns a new profile token credential.

Method Detail

create

ProfileTokenCredential create()
                              throws AS400SecurityException

Creates and returns a new profile token credential. The attributes of the profile token, such as timeout interval, user, etc are determined by the class that implements this interface.

Returns:

A newly created profile token credential.

Throws:

AS400SecurityException - If an IBM i system security or authentication error occurs