Authen::Simple::Adapter - Adapter class for implementations

    package Authenticate::Simple::Larry;

    use strict;
    use base 'Authen::Simple::Adapter';

    __PACKAGE__->options({
        secret => {
            type     => Params::Validate::SCALAR,
            default  => 'wall',
            optional => 1
        }
    });

    sub check {
        my ( $self, $username, $password ) = @_;

        if ( $username eq 'larry' && $password eq $self->secret ) {

            $self->log->debug( qq/Successfully authenticated user '$username'./ )
              if $self->log;

            return 1;
        }

        $self->log->debug( qq/Failed to authenticate user '$username'. Reason: 'Invalid credentials'/ )
          if $self->log;

        return 0;
    }

    1;

Adapter class for implementations.

* new ( %parameters )

If overloaded, this method should take a hash of parameters. The following options should be valid:

* cache ( $ )

Any object that supports get, set. Only successful authentications are cached.

    cache => Cache::FastMmap->new

* callback ( \& )

A subref that gets called with two scalar references, username and password.

    callback = sub {
        my ( $username, $password ) = @_;

        if ( length($$password) < 6 ) {
            return 0; # abort, invalid credintials
        }

        if ( $$password eq 'secret' ) {
            return 1; # abort, successful authentication
        }

        return; # proceed;
    }

* log ( $ )

Any object that supports debug, info, error and warn.

    log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple')
    log => $r->log
    log => $r->server->log

* init ( \%parameters )

This method is called after construction. It should assign parameters and return the instance.

    sub init {
        my ( $self, $parameters ) = @_;

        # mock with parameters

        return $self->SUPER::init($parameters);
    }

* authenticate ( $username, $password )

End user method. Applies callback, checks cache and calls check unless aborted by callback or a cache hit.

* check ( $username, $password )

Must be implemented in sublcass, should return true on success and false on failure.

* check_password( $password, $encrypted )

* options ( \%options )

Must be set in subclass, should be a valid Params::Validate specification. Accessors for options will be created unless defined in sublcass.

    __PACKAGE__->options({
        host => {
            type     => Params::Validate::SCALAR,
            optional => 0
        },
        port => {
            type     => Params::Validate::SCALAR,
            default  => 80,
            optional => 1
        }
    });

Authen::Simple

Authen::Simple::Password

Params::Validate

Christian Hansen ch@ngmedia.com

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.