Authenticator (pac4j core 5.1.2 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractProfileService, InMemoryProfileService, LocalCachingAuthenticator

Functional Interface:

This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.
```
@FunctionalInterface
public interface Authenticator
```
An authenticator is responsible for validating Credentials and should throw a CredentialsException if the authentication fails.

Since:

1.7.0

Author:

Jerome Leleu

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`validate(Credentials credentials, WebContext context, SessionStore sessionStore)`	Validate the credentials.

- Method Detail
  - validate
```
void validate(Credentials credentials,
              WebContext context,
              SessionStore sessionStore)
```
    Validate the credentials. It should throw a CredentialsException in case of failure.
    
    Parameters:
    
    credentials - the given credentials
    
    context - the web context
    
    sessionStore - the session store