org.opensaml
Interface SAMLIdentifier

All Known Implementing Classes:

SecureRandomIDProvider

public interface SAMLIdentifier

Encapsulates generation of identifiers and pseudo-random data for SAML objects

Author:

Scott Cantor, Tom Scavo

Method Summary

byte[]	generateRandomBytes(int n) Generate a sequence of random bytes.
byte[]	generateRandomBytes(SecureRandom random, int n) Generate a sequence of random bytes using the given SecureRandom object.
String	getIdentifier() Obtains a new identifier in string form

Method Detail

getIdentifier

public String getIdentifier()
                     throws SAMLException

Obtains a new identifier in string form

Returns:

The identifier in string form

Throws:

SAMLException - Raised if a problem occurs while generating the value

generateRandomBytes

public byte[] generateRandomBytes(SecureRandom random,
                                  int n)

Generate a sequence of random bytes using the given SecureRandom object.

Parameters:

random - a secure random number generator

n - the number of random bytes to generate

Returns:

the random bytes or null if the random argument is null

See Also:

SecureRandom

generateRandomBytes

public byte[] generateRandomBytes(int n)

Generate a sequence of random bytes.

Parameters:

n - the number of random bytes to generate

Returns:

the random bytes