> 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 whether > AuthenticationHandler 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. > > I am thinking of the following replacements > > getCredentials - extract credentials from request > requestCredentials - ask client for credentials > dropCredentials - forget about current credentials > > WDYT ? > Does this make sense ? > Are there better names ? > What about the interface names ?
What about "extractCredentials" to be very explicit instead of getCredentials. best regards mike
