UserDetailsService

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org.acegisecurity.userdetails
Interface UserDetailsService

public interface UserDetailsService

Defines an interface for implementations that wish to provide data access services to the org.acegisecurity.providers.dao.DaoAuthenticationProvider.

The interface requires only one read-only method, which simplifies support of new data access strategies.

Version:: $Id: UserDetailsService.java,v 1.9 2005/11/29 13:10:10 benalex Exp $

Method Summary

UserDetails loadUserByUsername(java.lang.String username)
Locates the user based on the username.

Method Detail

loadUserByUsername

public UserDetails loadUserByUsername(java.lang.String username)
                               throws UsernameNotFoundException,
                                      org.springframework.dao.DataAccessException

Locates the user based on the username. In the actual implementation, the search may possibly be case insensitive, or case insensitive depending on how the implementaion instance is configured. In this case, the UserDetails object that comes back may have a username that is of a different case than what was actually requested..