AuthenticationTrustResolver.java

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package org.springframework.security.authentication;

import org.springframework.security.core.Authentication;

/**
 * Evaluates <code>Authentication</code> tokens
 *
 * @author Ben Alex
 */
public interface AuthenticationTrustResolver {
	// ~ Methods
	// ========================================================================================================

	/**
	 * Indicates whether the passed <code>Authentication</code> token represents an
	 * anonymous user. Typically the framework will call this method if it is trying to
	 * decide whether an <code>AccessDeniedException</code> should result in a final
	 * rejection (i.e. as would be the case if the principal was non-anonymous/fully
	 * authenticated) or direct the principal to attempt actual authentication (i.e. as
	 * would be the case if the <code>Authentication</code> was merely anonymous).
	 *
	 * @param authentication to test (may be <code>null</code> in which case the method
	 * will always return <code>false</code>)
	 *
	 * @return <code>true</code> the passed authentication token represented an anonymous
	 * principal, <code>false</code> otherwise
	 */
	boolean isAnonymous(Authentication authentication);

	/**
	 * Indicates whether the passed <code>Authentication</code> token represents user that
	 * has been remembered (i.e. not a user that has been fully authenticated).
	 * <p>
	 * The method is provided to assist with custom <code>AccessDecisionVoter</code>s and
	 * the like that you might develop. Of course, you don't need to use this method
	 * either and can develop your own "trust level" hierarchy instead.
	 *
	 * @param authentication to test (may be <code>null</code> in which case the method
	 * will always return <code>false</code>)
	 *
	 * @return <code>true</code> the passed authentication token represented a principal
	 * authenticated using a remember-me token, <code>false</code> otherwise
	 */
	boolean isRememberMe(Authentication authentication);
}