com.sun.jersey.api.client.filter
Class HTTPBasicAuthFilter

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.jersey.api.client.filter.ClientFilter
      com.sun.jersey.api.client.filter.HTTPBasicAuthFilter

All Implemented Interfaces:

ClientHandler

public final class HTTPBasicAuthFilter
extends ClientFilter

Client filter adding HTTP Basic Authentication header to the HTTP request, if no such header is already present

Author:

Jakub.Podlesak@Sun.COM, Craig.McClanahan@Sun.COM

HTTPBasicAuthFilter

public HTTPBasicAuthFilter(java.lang.String username,
                           byte[] password)

Creates a new HTTP Basic Authentication filter using provided username and password credentials. This constructor allows you to avoid storing plain password value in a String variable.

Parameters:

username -

password -

HTTPBasicAuthFilter

public HTTPBasicAuthFilter(java.lang.String username,
                           java.lang.String password)

Creates a new HTTP Basic Authentication filter using provided username and password credentials.

Parameters:

username -

password -

handle

public ClientResponse handle(ClientRequest cr)
                      throws ClientHandlerException

Description copied from interface: ClientHandler

Handle a HTTP request as a ClientRequest and return the HTTP response as a ClientResponse.

Specified by:

handle in interface ClientHandler

Specified by:

handle in class ClientFilter

Parameters:

cr - the HTTP request.

Returns:

the HTTP response.

Throws:

ClientHandlerException - if the client handler fails to process the request or response.