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## com.tangosol.net.security
Interface IdentityAsserter

All Known Implementing Classes:
  DefaultIdentityAsserter

      public interface IdentityAsserter

IdentityAsserter validates a token in order to establish a user's identity. The token is an identity assertion, a statement that asserts an identity.

A token is opaque to Coherence. It could be a standard type such as a SAML Assertion or a proprietary type.

Since:
  Coherence 3.6
Author:
  dag 2009.10.30

Method Summary
`javax.security.auth.Subject` | `assertIdentity(java.lang.Object oToken)` Asserts an identity based on a token-based identity assertion.

Method Detail

### assertIdentity

    javax.security.auth.Subject assertIdentity(java.lang.Object oToken)
                                               throws java.lang.SecurityException

  Asserts an identity based on a token-based identity assertion.
  Parameters:
    `oToken` - the token that asserts identity.
  Returns:
    a Subject representing the identity.
  Throws:
    `java.lang.SecurityException` - if the identity assertion fails.

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