[security-dev] Password Expiration in IDM

[Anil Saldhana]

Hi Bruno,
   we had overloaded methods as of yesterday.

https://github.com/picketlink/picketlink/blob/master/idm/api/src/main/java/org/picketlink/idm/IdentityManager.java

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void updateCredential(Agent agent, Object value);
void updateCredential(Agent agent, Object value, Date effectiveDate, 
Date expiryDate);
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Majority of the developers will choose the first method and advanced 
developers will choose the second.

Regards,
Anil

On 01/10/2013 05:12 AM, Bruno Oliveira wrote:
> Hi Anil, so if I don't want password expiration my method call would 
> look like this?
>
> handler.update(agent, credential, this, null, null)
>
> Why not overloading methods for it?
>
>
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> On Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
>
>> Shane/Pedro,
>> I changed the Password Expiration to a null date for the api when the
>> developer wants infinite expiry passwords. One IDM test was choking.
>> For now, I have set the password expiry to 1500 years if the developer
>> wants infinite expiring passwords.
>>
>> Can you guys take a look? We need better handling when password expiry
>> holds a null date.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Anil