com.unboundid.ldap.sdk
Class ReadFromFilePasswordProvider

java.lang.Object
  com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.PasswordProvider
      com.unboundid.ldap.sdk.ReadFromFilePasswordProvider

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

@ThreadSafety(level=COMPLETELY_THREADSAFE)
public final class ReadFromFilePasswordProvider
extends PasswordProvider
implements java.io.Serializable

This class provides an implementation of a password provider that will obtain the password from a specified file. All bytes up to (but not including) the first end-of-line character (or to the end of the file if it does not contain an end-of-line character) will be considered part of the password.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

ReadFromFilePasswordProvider(java.io.File passwordFile)
Creates a new instance of this password provider that will read passwords from the specified file.

ReadFromFilePasswordProvider(java.lang.String passwordFile)
Creates a new instance of this password provider that will read passwords from the specified file.

Method Summary

byte[]

getPasswordBytes() Retrieves a password in a newly-created byte array.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ReadFromFilePasswordProvider

public ReadFromFilePasswordProvider(java.lang.String passwordFile)

Creates a new instance of this password provider that will read passwords from the specified file.

Parameters:

passwordFile - The path to the file containing the password to use. It must not be null.

ReadFromFilePasswordProvider

public ReadFromFilePasswordProvider(java.io.File passwordFile)

Creates a new instance of this password provider that will read passwords from the specified file.

Parameters:

passwordFile - The file containing the password to use. It must not be null.

Method Detail

getPasswordBytes

public byte[] getPasswordBytes()
                        throws LDAPException

Retrieves a password in a newly-created byte array. Once the password is no longer required, the contents of the array will be overwritten so that the password is no longer contained in memory.

Specified by:

getPasswordBytes in class PasswordProvider

Returns:

A byte array containing the password that should be used.

Throws:

LDAPException - If a problem is encountered while attempting to obtain the password.