Cassandra’s binary protocol supports SASL-based authentication. To enable it, use
Cluster.Builder.withCredentials when building your Cluster
instance to provide the credentials
you wish to authenticate with:
Cluster.builder()
.withCredentials("bob", "mypassword")
.build();
This is a shortcut for using PlainTextAuthProvider for simple username/password authentication
(intended to work with the server-side PasswordAuthenticator
). This may alternatively be
provided using the Cluster.Builder.withAuthProvider method:
Cluster.builder()
.withAuthProvider(new PlainTextAuthProvider("bob", "mypassword"))
.build();
Authentication must be configured before opening a session, it cannot be changed at runtime.
You can also write your own provider; it must implement AuthProvider.