Passay - Password Validation

A typical Password policy contains a set of rules to check a password if is compliant with organization rules. Consider the following policy:

• Length of password should be in between 8 to 16 characters.

• A password should not contain any whitespace.

• A password should contains each of the following: upper, lower, digit and a symbol.

Example - Validating a valid password against password policy

The below example shows the validation of a valid password against above policy using Passay library.

PassayDemo.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.passay.CharacterRule;
import org.passay.EnglishCharacterData;
import org.passay.LengthRule;
import org.passay.PasswordData;
import org.passay.PasswordValidator;
import org.passay.Rule;
import org.passay.RuleResult;
import org.passay.WhitespaceRule;

public class PassayDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
        
      List<Rule> rules = new ArrayList<>();        
      //Rule 1: Password length should be in between 
      //8 and 16 characters
      rules.add(new LengthRule(8, 16));        
      //Rule 2: No whitespace allowed
      rules.add(new WhitespaceRule());        
      //Rule 3.a: At least one Upper-case character
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.UpperCase, 1));        
      //Rule 3.b: At least one Lower-case character
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.LowerCase, 1));        
      //Rule 3.c: At least one digit
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.Digit, 1));        
      //Rule 3.d: At least one special character
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.Special, 1));
        
      PasswordValidator validator = new PasswordValidator(rules);        
      PasswordData password = new PasswordData("Microsoft@123");        
      RuleResult result = validator.validate(password);
        
      if(result.isValid()){
         System.out.println("Password validated.");
      } else {
         System.out.println("Invalid Password: " + validator.getMessages(result));            
      }
   }
}

Output

Compile and run the code to verify the result −

Password validated.

Example - Checking an invalid password against password policy

The below example shows the validation of an invalid password against password policy using Passay library.

PassayDemo.java

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.passay.CharacterRule;
import org.passay.EnglishCharacterData;
import org.passay.LengthRule;
import org.passay.PasswordData;
import org.passay.PasswordValidator;
import org.passay.Rule;
import org.passay.RuleResult;
import org.passay.WhitespaceRule;

public class PassayDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
        
      List<Rule> rules = new ArrayList<>();        
      //Rule 1: Password length should be in between 
      //8 and 16 characters
      rules.add(new LengthRule(8, 16));        
      //Rule 2: No whitespace allowed
      rules.add(new WhitespaceRule());        
      //Rule 3.a: At least one Upper-case character
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.UpperCase, 1));        
      //Rule 3.b: At least one Lower-case character
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.LowerCase, 1));        
      //Rule 3.c: At least one digit
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.Digit, 1));        
      //Rule 3.d: At least one special character
      rules.add(new CharacterRule(EnglishCharacterData.Special, 1));
        
      PasswordValidator validator = new PasswordValidator(rules);        
      PasswordData password = new PasswordData("Microsoft");        
      RuleResult result = validator.validate(password);
        
      if(result.isValid()){
         System.out.println("Password validated.");
      } else {
         System.out.println("Invalid Password: " + validator.getMessages(result));            
      }
   }
}

Output

Compile and run the code to verify the result −

Invalid Password: [Password must contain 1 or more digit characters., Password must contain 1 or more special characters.]