# AuthenticationSupported

API Documentation: | `AuthenticationSupported`

Known Subtypes: |
`IvyPluginRepository` | `IvyArtifactRepository` |
`MavenPluginRepository` | `MavenArtifactRepository` |

An artifact repository which supports username/password authentication.

### Properties

Property | Description
`authentication` | Incubating The authentication schemes for this repository.
`credentials` | Incubating The credentials of the specified type used to authenticate with this repository.

### Methods

Method | Description
`authentication(action)` | Incubating Configures the authentication schemes for this repository.
`credentials(credentialsType, action)` | Incubating Configures the credentials for this repository using the supplied action.
`credentials(action)` | Configures the username and password credentials for this repository using the supplied action.

### Script blocks

No script blocks

### Property details

#### `AuthenticationContainer` `authentication` (read-only)

Note: This property is incubating and may change in a future version of Gradle.

The authentication schemes for this repository.

#### `T` `credentials` (read-only)

Note: This property is incubating and may change in a future version of Gradle.

The credentials of the specified type used to authenticate with this repository.

If no credentials have been assigned to this repository, an empty set of credentials of the specified type is assigned to this repository and returned.

### Method details

#### `void` `authentication`(``Action`<? super `AuthenticationContainer`>` action)

Note: This method is incubating and may change in a future version of Gradle.

Configures the authentication schemes for this repository.

This method executes the given action against the `AuthenticationContainer` for this project. The `AuthenticationContainer` is passed to the closure as the closure's delegate.

If no authentication schemes have been assigned to this repository, a default set of authentication schemes are used based on the repository's transport scheme.

    repositories {
        maven {
            url "${url}"
            authentication {
                basic(BasicAuthentication)
            }
        }
    }

Supported authentication scheme types extend `Authentication`.

#### `void` `credentials`(``Class`<`T`>` credentialsType, ``Action`<? super `T`>` action)

Note: This method is incubating and may change in a future version of Gradle.

Configures the credentials for this repository using the supplied action.

If no credentials have been assigned to this repository, an empty set of credentials of the specified type will be assigned to this repository and given to the configuration action. If credentials have already been specified for this repository, they will be passed to the given configuration action.

    repositories {
        maven {
            url "${url}"
            credentials(AwsCredentials) {
                accessKey "myAccessKey"
                secretKey "mySecret"
            }
        }
    }

The following credential types are currently supported for the `credentialsType` argument:

- `PasswordCredentials`
- `AwsCredentials`

#### `void` `credentials`(``Action`<? super `PasswordCredentials`>` action)

Configures the username and password credentials for this repository using the supplied action.

If no credentials have been assigned to this repository, an empty set of username and password credentials is assigned to this repository and passed to the action.

    repositories {
        maven {
            url "${url}"
            credentials {
                username = 'joe'
                password = 'secret'
            }
        }
    }