DATACMNS-79 - UserCredentials treats empty Strings passed as null.

spring-data-commons-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/authentication/UserCredentials.java

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 package org.springframework.data.authentication;
 
 import org.springframework.util.ObjectUtils;
+import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 
 /**
  * Class used to provide credentials for username/password authentication
@@ -33,14 +34,15 @@ public class UserCredentials {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * Creates a new {@link UserCredentials} instance from the given username and password.
+	 * Creates a new {@link UserCredentials} instance from the given username and password. Empty {@link String}s provided
+	 * will be treated like no username or password set.
 	 * 
 	 * @param username
 	 * @param password
 	 */
 	public UserCredentials(String username, String password) {
-		this.username = username;
-		this.password = password;
+		this.username = StringUtils.hasText(username) ? username : null;
+		this.password = StringUtils.hasText(password) ? password : null;
 	}
 
 	/**

spring-data-commons-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/authentication/UserCredentialsUnitTests.java

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2011 by the original author(s).
+ *
+ * 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.springframework.data.authentication;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.*;
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/**
+ * Unit tests for {@link UserCredentials}.
+ *
+ * @author Oliver Gierke
+ */
+public class UserCredentialsUnitTests {
+
+	@Test
+	public void treatsEmptyStringAsNull() {
+		
+		UserCredentials credentials = new UserCredentials("", "");
+		assertThat(credentials.getUsername(), is(nullValue()));
+		assertThat(credentials.getPassword(), is(nullValue()));
+	}
+}