hirondelle.movies.login
Class LoginController

Object
  LoginController

All Implemented Interfaces:

ActionListener, EventListener

public final class LoginController
extends Object
implements ActionListener

Allow only authenticated users to log in to the application.

This implementation is only a toy. It doesn't perform realistic validation of user name and password. For your own applications, you will need to supply your own implementation.

Field Summary

(package private) static String	CANCEL Action command string.
(package private) static String	LOGIN Action command string.

Constructor Summary

LoginController()

Method Summary

void	actionPerformed(ActionEvent aEvent) Listen for button clicks on the LoginView screen - LOGIN or CANCEL.
void	askUserForCredentials() Ask the end user for their user name and password.
(package private) void	validateUserCredentials() Validate the user name and password entered by the user.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

LOGIN

static final String LOGIN

Action command string.

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Constant Field Values

CANCEL

static final String CANCEL

Action command string.

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

LoginController

public LoginController()

Method Detail

actionPerformed

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent aEvent)

Listen for button clicks on the LoginView screen - LOGIN or CANCEL.

Specified by:

actionPerformed in interface ActionListener

askUserForCredentials

public void askUserForCredentials()

Ask the end user for their user name and password.

This is the first screen displayed to the user upon startup.

validateUserCredentials

void validateUserCredentials()

Validate the user name and password entered by the user.

If the validation succeeds, close the login screen and display the MainWindow. If the validation fails, allow the user to make a few more attempts at login. If the validation fails repeatedly, close the application.