de.umass.lastfm
Class Authenticator

java.lang.Object
  de.umass.lastfm.Authenticator

public class Authenticator
extends Object

Provides bindings for the authentication methods of the last.fm API. See http://www.last.fm/api/authentication for authentication methods.

Author:

Janni Kovacs

See Also:

Session

Method Summary

static Session	getMobileSession(String username, String password, String apiKey, String secret) Create a web service session for a user.
static Session	getSession(String token, String apiKey, String secret) Fetch a session key for a user.
static String	getToken(String apiKey) Fetch an unathorized request token for an API account.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getMobileSession

public static Session getMobileSession(String username,
                                       String password,
                                       String apiKey,
                                       String secret)

Create a web service session for a user. Used for authenticating a user when the password can be inputted by the user.

Parameters:

username - last.fm username

password - last.fm password in cleartext or 32-char md5 string

apiKey - The API key

secret - Your last.fm API secret

Returns:

a Session instance

See Also:

Session

getToken

public static String getToken(String apiKey)

Fetch an unathorized request token for an API account.

Parameters:

apiKey - A last.fm API key.

Returns:

a token

getSession

public static Session getSession(String token,
                                 String apiKey,
                                 String secret)

Fetch a session key for a user.

Parameters:

token - A token returned by getToken(String)

apiKey - A last.fm API key

secret - Your last.fm API secret

Returns:

a Session instance

See Also:

Session