com.gigaspaces.security
Interface Authority

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

InternalAuthority

All Known Implementing Classes:

GridAuthority, MonitorAuthority, PopulatedRoleAuthority, RoleAuthority, SpaceAuthority, SystemAuthority

public interface Authority
extends Serializable

Interface for all authorities that may be granted to a user. "Authority" refers to an abstraction given to a set of privileges (permissions).

An Authority must be representable as a String which is specifically supported by an AuthorityFactory.

Since:

7.0.1

Author:

Moran Avigdor

Method Summary

String

getAuthority() An Authority that can be represented as a String which is sufficient in precision to be relied upon for an access control decisions.

Method Detail

getAuthority

String getAuthority()

An Authority that can be represented as a String which is sufficient in precision to be relied upon for an access control decisions.

Returns:

a representation of the granted authority (expressed as a String with sufficient precision).