Package org.forgerock.caf.authentication.api

Interface MessageContext

All Superinterfaces:

Context, MessageInfoContext

All Known Implementing Classes:

MessageContextImpl

public interface MessageContext
extends Context, MessageInfoContext

The authentication framework uses this MessageContext to pass messages and message processing state to authentication contexts for processing by authentication modules.

This class encapsulates a request and response message objects for a message exchange. This class may also be used to associate additional context in the form of key/value pairs, with the encapsulated messages.

Since:

2.0.0

See Also:

MessageInfo

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
AuditTrail	getAuditTrail()	Gets the AuditTrail instance for this message exchange.
<T extends AuthenticationState> T	getState(AsyncServerAuthContext authContext)	Gets the AuthenticationState instance that maintains any stateful information for the provided AsyncServerAuthContext.

Methods inherited from interface org.forgerock.services.context.Context

as, asContext, containsContext, containsContext, get, getContext, getContextName, getId, getParent, getRootId, isRootContext, toJsonValue

Methods inherited from interface org.forgerock.caf.authentication.api.MessageInfoContext

getRequest, getRequestContextMap, getResponse, setRequest, setResponse

Method Detail

getAuditTrail

AuditTrail getAuditTrail()

Gets the AuditTrail instance for this message exchange.

Returns:

The AuditTrail

getState

<T extends AuthenticationState> T getState(AsyncServerAuthContext authContext)

Gets the AuthenticationState instance that maintains any stateful information for the provided AsyncServerAuthContext.

Type Parameters:

T - The type of state class.

Parameters:

authContext - The AsyncServerAuthContext for which the state applies.

Returns:

The AuthenticationState instance.