Custom AuthenticationHandler messages

[Scott Battaglia]

AuthenticationException is an abstract class. You'd have to implement a
class that extends it.  Look at the examples included in CAS.
-Scott

-Scott Battaglia
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Aaron Burton <awburton at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have my own authentication handler that has been working fine for a long
> time.  Now I want to add some custom messages like "your password is
> expired".  So I've added a throw to my handler, if the password is expired,
> like this.
>
> throw new
> AuthenticationException("error.authentication.credentials.expired");
>
> I'm getting a "Cannot instantiate the type AuthenticationException"
> message.  The shell of my handler is like this:
>
> public class CustomAuthenticationHandler implements AuthenticationHandler {
>     public boolean authenticate(Credentials credentials) throws
> AuthenticationException {
>         ... my validation code is in here...
>     }
> }
>
> if someone could point me to an example that throws a custom error code,
> that would great.
>
> Thank you
>
>
>
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