Name
PasswordAuthentication
Synopsis
This simple immutable
class encapsulates a username and a password. The password is stored
as a character array rather than as a String
object so that the caller can erase the contents of the array after
use for increased security. Note that the
PasswordAuthentication( )
constructor clones the
specified password character array, but
getPassword(
)
returns a reference to the object’s
internal array.
Application programmers defining an Authenticator
object for their application need to create and return a
PasswordAuthentication
object from the
getPasswordAuthentication(
)
method of that object. System programmers
writing URLStreamHandler
implementations or
otherwise interacting with a network server that requests password
authentication may obtain a PasswordAutentication
object representing the user’s name and password by
calling the static
Authenticator.requestPasswordAuthentication( )
method.
public final class PasswordAuthentication { // Public Constructors public PasswordAuthentication(String userName, char[ ] password); // Public Instance Methods public char[ ] getPassword( ); public String getUserName( ); }
Returned By
Authenticator.{getPasswordAuthentication( )
,
requestPasswordAuthentication( )}
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