[SLING-1280] Rename methods of (new) AuthenticationHandler interface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: OpenID Authentication 1.0.0, Extensions httpauth 2.0.6, Auth Core 1.0.0
• Fix Version/s: OpenID Authentication 1.0.0, Extensions httpauth 2.0.6, Auth Core 1.0.0
• Component/s: Authentication
• Assignee: Felix Meschberger
• Reporter: Felix Meschberger
• Created: 08/Jan/10 10:11
• Updated: 27/Aug/10 08:50
• Resolved: 08/Jan/10 10:35

Description

Currently the AuthenticationHandler interface defines the following methods:

authenticate - extract credentials from request
requestAuthentication - ask client for credentials
dropAuthentication - forget about current credentials

The authenticate and requestAuthentication names are historic and date back to some internal code at the time where uthenticationHandler did not exist yet.

IMHO these names are not that good. And since we are defining new API anyway, this might probaby be a good time to rename the methods.

extractCredentials - extract credentials from request
requestCredentials - ask client for credentials
dropCredentials - forget about current credentials

See also the discussion at http://markmail.org/thread/bocbtx2q5js4i2gf