com.datastax.driver.core

Interface AuthProvider

All Known Implementing Classes:

DseAuthProvider, DseGSSAPIAuthProvider, DsePlainTextAuthProvider, PlainTextAuthProvider

public interface AuthProvider

Provides Authenticator instances for use when connecting to Cassandra nodes.

See PlainTextAuthProvider for an implementation which uses SASL PLAIN mechanism to authenticate using username/password strings

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static AuthProvider	NONE A provider that provides no authentication capability.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Authenticator	newAuthenticator(InetSocketAddress host, String authenticator) The Authenticator to use when connecting to host

Field Detail

NONE

static final AuthProvider NONE

A provider that provides no authentication capability.

This is only useful as a placeholder when no authentication is to be used.

Method Detail

newAuthenticator

Authenticator newAuthenticator(InetSocketAddress host,
                               String authenticator)
                        throws AuthenticationException

The Authenticator to use when connecting to host

Parameters:

host - the Cassandra host to connect to.

authenticator - the configured authenticator on the host.

Returns:

The authentication implementation to use.

Throws:

AuthenticationException