On 2024/05/07 18:20:46 Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 07/05/2024 19:06, Michael Osipov wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I am working on a custom Authenticator and Realm where I need to pass
> > down a custom value to Realm#authenticate(), more specially a value
> > obtained from javax.security.auth.Subject#getPrivateCredentials().
> > Currently, there is no such facility in the interface. Any idea how to
> > pass this down w/o touching the interface and w/o thread-local values?
> > The only thing I can think of is a custom realm interface, but that
> > means every realm needs to implement it...
>
> Cast to your custom Realm in your custom Authenticator and then call any
> method you like? It sounds like the Realm and Authenticator are coupled
> together anyway.
Yes, but not quite. The authenticator does work with any realm Tomcat provides,
but should also provide this custom realm of mine. So I will likely consider:
if (realm instanceof CustomRealm) {
doFoo()
} else{
doBar()
}
Thanks Mark!
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