PasswordRequestValidator (Broadleaf Authentication Services 1.7.1-GA API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultPasswordRequestValidator
```
public interface PasswordRequestValidator
```
This validator uses regex to validate new passwords for registration and password resets. The validation has been broken down into segments that are commonly used:
- Check if the password is too short (default is 8)
- Check if the password is too long (default is 255)
- Check if the password has 'n' uppercase letter(s) (default is 1 unicode uppercase)
- Check if the password has 'n' lowercase letter(s) (default is 1 unicode lowercase)
- Check if the password has 'n' special character(s) (default is 1)
- Check if the password has 'n' digits(s) (default is 1)
- Check if the password has whitespaces
- Check if the password has sequentially repeated characters, i.e. 11, aa, -- (default is none at all)
- Check if the password and the password confirmation fields match
All of which can be configured via properties along with error messages.
Author:

Nathan Moore (nathanmoore), Phillip Verheyden (phillipuniverse)

See Also:

DefaultPasswordRequestValidator, PasswordValidatorProperties

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`doesPasswordConfirmationMatch(String password, String pwdConfirm)`	Ensures that both the passwords match, excluding 'null' matches.
`PasswordValidation`	`validate(String password)`	Validates the password

- Method Detail
  - validate
```
@NonNull
PasswordValidation validate(@Nullable
                            String password)
```
    Validates the password
    
    Parameters:
    
    password -
    
    Returns:
    
    the validation result after running through all of the validations
  - doesPasswordConfirmationMatch
```
boolean doesPasswordConfirmationMatch(@Nullable
                                      String password,
                                      @Nullable
                                      String pwdConfirm)
```
    Ensures that both the passwords match, excluding 'null' matches. In the case that both are null, this will return false;
    
    Parameters:
    
    password - what the user typed in as the password
    
    pwdConfirm - confirmation dialogue that the user gave
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the passwords match, false otherwise