1 /* 2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 3 * contributor license agreements. The ASF licenses this file to You 4 * under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not 5 * use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. For additional information regarding 15 * copyright in this work, please see the NOTICE file in the top level 16 * directory of this distribution. 17 */ 18 19 package org.apache.roller.ui.core; 20 21 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; 22 23 /** Interface used by Roller to check user authentication and role */ 24 public interface Authenticator 25 { 26 /** Return the name of the request's authenticated user, or null if none */ 27 public String getAuthenticatedUserName( HttpServletRequest req ); 28 29 /** Return true if authenticated user is in the specified role */ 30 public boolean isAuthenticatedUserInRole( HttpServletRequest req, String role); 31 } 32 33