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In CAS3, the mechanism to do this was an AbstractPreAndPostProcessingAuthenticationHandler. The issue with that was that you had to code one for EACH authentication handler instead of the entire authentication process. In CAS4, that's been replaced with the notion of a PreAuthenticationPlugin:

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/**
 * Copyright (C) 2009 Jasig, Inc.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package org.jasig.cas.server;

import org.jasig.cas.server.login.LoginRequest;
import org.jasig.cas.server.login.LoginResponse;
import org.jasig.cas.server.authentication.AuthenticationResponse;

/**
 * Defines actions that occur before authentication.
 * <p>
 * Replacement for the AbstractPreAndPostAuthenticationHandler.
 *
 * @author Scott Battaglia
 * @version $Revision$ $Date$
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
public interface PreAuthenticationPlugin {

    /**
     * Determines whether we should continue with authentication or not.
     *
     * @param loginRequest the login request, CANNOT be null.
     * @return a login response if we should stop processing.  NULL if we should continue.
     */
    LoginResponse continueWithAuthentication(LoginRequest loginRequest);
}

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