PasswordEncoder (micronaut-security 1.2.3 API)

```
public interface PasswordEncoder
```
Responsible for determining if a given password matches its encoded state and encoding raw passwords.

Since:

1.0

Author:

Sergio del Amo

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`java.lang.String`	`encode(java.lang.String rawPassword)`
`boolean`	`matches(java.lang.String rawPassword, java.lang.String encodedPassword)`

- Method Detail
  - encode
```
java.lang.String encode(java.lang.String rawPassword)
```
    Parameters:
    
    rawPassword - The plain text password
    
    Returns:
    
    The result of encoding the password
  - matches
```
boolean matches(java.lang.String rawPassword,
                java.lang.String encodedPassword)
```
    Parameters:
    
    rawPassword - The plain text password
    
    encodedPassword - The encoded password to match against
    
    Returns:
    
    true if the passwords match