Deprecated API

Contents

• Interfaces
• Classes
• Exceptions
• Methods
• Constructors

Deprecated Interfaces

Interface	Description
com.spotfire.server.userdir.UserDirectory	This class is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use AuthenticationContext.getUserDirectory() to retrieve a UserDirectory instance instead.

Deprecated Classes

Class	Description
com.spotfire.server.security.AuthenticationFilterPrincipal	The Authentication Filter API is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use a CustomAuthenticator, a CustomWebAuthenticator or a custom login page (depending on the use case) instead.
com.spotfire.server.userdir.UserDirectoryFactory	This class, as well as the UserDirectory, is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use AuthenticationContext.getUserDirectory() to retrieve a UserDirectory instance instead.

Deprecated Exceptions

Exceptions	Description
com.spotfire.server.userdir.InvalidPrimaryGroupException	This exception is no longer thrown.

Deprecated Methods

Method	Description
com.spotfire.server.security.AuthenticationContext.getCookies()	Use getHeader("Cookie") instead to access the raw HTTP cookie data
com.spotfire.server.security.CustomAuthenticator.init(Map<String, String>)	This method is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please implement the CustomAuthenticator.init(CustomAuthenticatorInitContext) method instead.
com.spotfire.server.security.CustomWebAuthenticatorInitContext.getReturnEndpoint()	This method is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use WebAuthenticationContext.getReturnEndpoint() instead.
com.spotfire.server.security.PostAuthenticationFilter.setConfiguration(String)	This method is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please implement the PostAuthenticationFilter.init(PostAuthenticationFilterInitContext) method instead.
com.spotfire.server.security.PostAuthenticationFilterInitContext.getLegacyConfiguration()	This method is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the name-value parameters that can be retrieved from PostAuthenticationFilterInitContext.getParameters() instead.
com.spotfire.server.security.SecurityContext.getPrincipal()	This method is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use the UserDirectory to retrieve principals instead.
com.spotfire.server.userdir.UserDirectoryFactory.getUserDirectory()	This method is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use AuthenticationContext.getUserDirectory() to retrieve a UserDirectory instance instead.

Deprecated Constructors

Constructor	Description
com.spotfire.server.security.AuthenticationFilterPrincipal(String, String, String, String)	The Authentication Filter API is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please use a CustomAuthenticator, a CustomWebAuthenticator or a custom login page (depending on the use case) instead.
com.spotfire.server.userdir.InvalidPrimaryGroupException(String, SpotfirePrincipal, GroupPrincipal)	This class should not be instantiated by users of the API.
com.spotfire.server.userdir.NoSuchPrincipalException(String, Guid, String)	This class should not be instantiated by users of the API.
com.spotfire.server.userdir.NoSuchPrincipalException(String, String, String)	This class should not be instantiated by users of the API.
com.spotfire.server.userdir.PrincipalAlreadyExistsException()	This class should not be instantiated by users of the API.
com.spotfire.server.userdir.PrincipalAlreadyExistsException(String)	This class should not be instantiated by users of the API.
com.spotfire.server.userdir.UserDirectoryException()	This class should not be instantiated by users of the API.
com.spotfire.server.userdir.UserDirectoryException(String)	This class should not be instantiated by users of the API.
com.spotfire.server.userdir.UserDirectoryException(String, Throwable)	This class should not be instantiated by users of the API.
com.spotfire.server.userdir.UserDirectoryException(Throwable)	This class should not be instantiated by users of the API.