Package net.jini.url.file

Class FileIntegrityVerifier

java.lang.Object

net.jini.url.file.FileIntegrityVerifier

All Implemented Interfaces:

IntegrityVerifier

public class FileIntegrityVerifier
extends Object
implements IntegrityVerifier

Integrity verifier for FILE URLs. This class is intended to be specified in a resource to configure the operation of Security.verifyCodebaseIntegrity.

Do not use this verifier if your operating system is configured to mount remote file systems and the underlying file system protocols do not provide adequate data integrity or authentication of the remote hosts.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
FileIntegrityVerifier()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	providesIntegrity(URL url)	Returns true if the specified URL uses the "file" protocol and the host is null, empty, "~", or "localhost"; returns false otherwise.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

FileIntegrityVerifier

public FileIntegrityVerifier()

Method Details

providesIntegrity

public boolean providesIntegrity(URL url)

Returns true if the specified URL uses the "file" protocol and the host is null, empty, "~", or "localhost"; returns false otherwise.

Specified by:

providesIntegrity in interface IntegrityVerifier

Parameters:

url - URL to verify

Returns:

true if the specified URL is known to provide content integrity; false otherwise

Throws:

NullPointerException - if the URL is null