Package nl.talsmasoftware.context.springsecurity

Class SpringSecurityContextManager

java.lang.Object

nl.talsmasoftware.context.springsecurity.SpringSecurityContextManager

All Implemented Interfaces:

Clearable, ClearableContextManager<Authentication>, ContextManager<Authentication>

public class SpringSecurityContextManager
extends Object
implements ClearableContextManager<Authentication>

A context manager that propagates spring-security Authentication objects into background threads using the ContextAwareExecutorService.

Management of the authentication is fully delegated to the Spring SecurityContextHolder, so no additional ThreadLocal variables are used.

Author:

Sjoerd Talsma

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
SpringSecurityContextManager()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	clear()	Clears the Spring SecurityContext by calling SecurityContextHolder.clearContext().
Context<Authentication>	getActiveContext()	The currently active context, or null if no context is active.
Context<Authentication>	initializeNewContext(Authentication value)	Creates a new Spring SecurityContext and sets the value in it.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SpringSecurityContextManager

public SpringSecurityContextManager()

Method Detail

initializeNewContext

public Context<Authentication> initializeNewContext(Authentication value)

Creates a new Spring SecurityContext and sets the value in it.

This new value is set in the SecurityContextHolder and the current Authentication is remembered, to be restored when the returned Context is closed.

Specified by:

initializeNewContext in interface ContextManager<Authentication>

Parameters:

value - The value to initialize a new context for.

Returns:

A context with the new Authentication, restoring the previous authentication when closed.

getActiveContext

public Context<Authentication> getActiveContext()

Description copied from interface: ContextManager

The currently active context, or null if no context is active.

Specified by:

getActiveContext in interface ContextManager<Authentication>

Returns:

A context object referring to the current Authentication in the spring security context holder. Closing the returned context does nothing.

clear

public void clear()

Clears the Spring SecurityContext by calling SecurityContextHolder.clearContext().

Specified by:

clear in interface Clearable