Method: Crowd.authenticate_principal

Defined in:
lib/crowd.rb

.authenticate_principal(username, password) ⇒ Object

Authenticate principal



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# File 'lib/crowd.rb', line 88

def self.authenticate_principal(username, password)
  response = authenticated_connection do      
    pword = PasswordCredential.new(password, false)
    ctx = PrincipalAuthenticationContext.new(@@application_token.name, pword, username, nil)
    arg = AuthenticatePrincipal.new(@@application_token, ctx)

    server.authenticatePrincipal(arg)      
  end    
  
  #evaluate the response.  ideally, the authenticatePrincipal call should
  #return an AuthenticationInvalidCredentialException and we can handle it more
  #nicely below.
  case response
    when AuthenticatePrincipalResponse        
      return response.out
    when InvalidAuthenticationException
      return nil      
    when nil #no reponse      
      raise AuthenticationInvalidCredentialException, response
    else
      raise AuthenticationException, response
  end
end