org.apache.hc.client5.http

Interface AuthenticationStrategy

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultAuthenticationStrategy

@Contract(threading=STATELESS)
public interface AuthenticationStrategy

Strategy to select auth schemes in order of preference based on auth challenges presented by the opposite endpoint (target server or a proxy).

Implementations of this interface must be thread-safe. Access to shared data must be synchronized as methods of this interface may be executed from multiple threads.

Since:

4.2

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
List<AuthScheme>	select(ChallengeType challengeType, Map<String,AuthChallenge> challenges, HttpContext context) Returns an list of AuthSchemes to handle the given AuthChallenges in their order of preference.

Method Detail

select

List<AuthScheme> select(ChallengeType challengeType,
                        Map<String,AuthChallenge> challenges,
                        HttpContext context)

Returns an list of AuthSchemes to handle the given AuthChallenges in their order of preference.

Parameters:

challengeType - challenge type.

challenges - map of challenges keyed by lowercase auth scheme names.

context - HTTP context.

Returns:

authentication auth schemes that can be used for authentication. Can be empty.

Since:

5.0