PasswordProvider (Java API Reference for Oracle® Coherence Community Edition)

All Known Implementing Classes:

InputStreamPasswordProvider, PasswordProviderBuilderProcessor.DefaultPasswordProvider, URLPasswordProvider
```
public interface PasswordProvider
```
PasswordProvider allows Coherence users to plug in their own mechanism to determine the appropriate password.

Since:

12.2.1.4

Author:

spuneet

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type Field Description

static PasswordProvider NullImplementation
A singleton implementation of a PasswordProvider that always returns an empty array.

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`char[]`	`get()`	Returns the password to be used in clear format.
`static void`	`reset(char[]... arrays)`	Resets the contents of a password array

- Field Detail
  - NullImplementation
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static final PasswordProvider NullImplementation
```
    A singleton implementation of a PasswordProvider that always returns an empty array.
- Method Detail
  - get
```
char[] get()
```
    Returns the password to be used in clear format. The char[] returned from the get() method is not retained by the provider, and it is expected that the consumer zero's out the array once it is done with the password.
    
    Returns:
    
    password as char[]
  - reset
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static void reset(char[]... arrays)
```
    Resets the contents of a password array
    
    Parameters:
    
    arrays - an array of character arrays to reset