com.nimbusds.oauth2.sdk.auth
Class ClientAuthentication

java.lang.Object
  com.nimbusds.oauth2.sdk.auth.ClientAuthentication

Direct Known Subclasses:

ClientSecretBasic, ClientSecretPost, JWTAuthentication

public abstract class ClientAuthentication
extends Object

Base abstract class for client authentication at the Token endpoint.

Related specifications:

• OAuth 2.0 (RFC 6749), section 2.3.

Version:

$version$ (2013-02-25)

Author:

Vladimir Dzhuvinov

Constructor Summary

protected

ClientAuthentication(ClientAuthenticationMethod method) Creates a new abstract client authentication.

Method Summary

abstract void	applyTo(HTTPRequest httpRequest) Applies the authentication to the specified HTTP request by setting its Authorization header and/or POST entity-body parameters (according to the implemented client authentication method).
ClientAuthenticationMethod	getMethod() Gets the client authentication method.
static ClientAuthentication	parse(HTTPRequest httpRequest) Parses the specified HTTP request for a supported client authentication (see ClientAuthenticationMethod).

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ClientAuthentication

protected ClientAuthentication(ClientAuthenticationMethod method)

Creates a new abstract client authentication.

Parameters:

method - The client authentication method. Must not be null.

Method Detail

getMethod

public ClientAuthenticationMethod getMethod()

Gets the client authentication method.

Returns:

The client authentication method.

parse

public static ClientAuthentication parse(HTTPRequest httpRequest)
                                  throws ParseException

Parses the specified HTTP request for a supported client authentication (see ClientAuthenticationMethod). This method is intended to aid parsing of authenticated TokenRequests.

Parameters:

httpRequest - The HTTP request to parse. Must not be null.

Returns:

The client authentication method, null if none or the method is not supported.

Throws:

ParseException - If the inferred client authentication couldn't be parsed.

applyTo

public abstract void applyTo(HTTPRequest httpRequest)
                      throws SerializeException

Applies the authentication to the specified HTTP request by setting its Authorization header and/or POST entity-body parameters (according to the implemented client authentication method).

Parameters:

httpRequest - The HTTP request. Must not be null.

Throws:

SerializeException - If the client authentication parameters couldn't be applied to the HTTP request.