net.jini.security.policy
Interface SecurityContextSource

All Known Implementing Classes:

AggregatePolicyProvider

public interface SecurityContextSource

Interface that a security manager or policy provider can optionally implement in order to support the saving and restoring of custom security context state. If the installed security manager or policy provider implements this interface, then its getContext method is delegated to by the corresponding method of the Security class, with precedence given to the security manager.

This interface is intended to be implemented by security managers and policy providers whose security contexts include state in addition to that provided by AccessControlContext. For example, a security policy provider that considers thread local values when evaluating security checks may want to include those values in snapshots of the current security context, so that they can be properly restored when the context is reapplied--it can achieve this by implementing the getContext method to return a SecurityContext instance containing the snapshotted thread local values as well as the current access control context, with wrap methods implemented to return privileged action wrappers that properly restore the thread local state.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Method Summary

SecurityContext

getContext() Returns a snapshot of the current security context, which can be used to restore the context at a later time.

Method Detail

getContext

SecurityContext getContext()

Returns a snapshot of the current security context, which can be used to restore the context at a later time.

Returns:

snapshot of the current security context