Catalyst-Authentication-Store-DBI

NAME

Catalyst::Authentication::Store::DBI - Storage class for Catalyst Authentication using DBI

SYNOPSIS

use Catalyst qw(Authentication);

      __PACKAGE__->config->{'authentication'} = {
        'default_realm' => 'default',
        'realms' => {
          'default' => {
            'credential' => {
              'class'               => 'Password',
              'password_field'      => 'password',
              'password_type'       => 'hashed',
              'password_hash_type'  => 'SHA-1',
            },
            'store' => {
              'class'              => 'DBI',
              'user_table'         => 'login',
              'user_key'           => 'id',
              'user_name'          => 'name',
              'role_table'         => 'authority',
              'role_key'           => 'id',
              'role_name'          => 'name',
              'user_role_table'    => 'competence',
              'user_role_user_key' => 'login',
              'user_role_role_key' => 'authority',
            },
          },
        },
      };

      sub login :Global
      {
        my ($self, $c) = @_;
        my $req = $c->request();

        # catch login failures
        unless ($c->authenticate({
          'name'     => $req->param('name'),
          'password' => $req->param('password'),
          })) {
          ...
        }

        ...
      }

      sub something :Path
      {
        my ($self, $c) = @_;

        # handle missing role case
        unless ($c->check_user_roles('editor')) {
          ...
        }

        ...
      }

DESCRIPTION

This module implements the Catalyst::Authentication API using Catalyst::Model::DBI.

It uses DBI to let your application authenticate users against a database and it provides support for Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::Roles.

METHODS
new
find_user
for_session
from_session
user_supports
SEE ALSO

Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication
Catalyst::Model::DBI
Catalyst::Plugin::Authorization::Roles

AUTHOR

Simon Bertrang, <simon.bertrang@puzzworks.com>

COPYRIGHT

LICENSE

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