Package com.pingidentity.sdk.password

Interface AttributeRetrievablePasswordCredential

public interface AttributeRetrievablePasswordCredential

Interface implemented by password credential validators that have the ability to lookup attributes by username alone. This interface must be implemented to avoid re-authenticating the user immediately after password change, password reset, or account unlock has occurred.

Since:

11.2

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
AttributeMap	getUserAttributes(String username)	This method is called to retrieve attributes by username alone from a password credential validator PasswordCredentialValidator.

Method Details

getUserAttributes

AttributeMap getUserAttributes(String username)
                        throws AttributeLookupException

This method is called to retrieve attributes by username alone from a password credential validator PasswordCredentialValidator.

Parameters:

username - The username or user id.

Returns:

An AttributeMap with at least one entry representing the user. The map is empty or null if the username is considered invalid.

Throws:

AttributeLookupException