Interface Summary
Interface	Description
InternalAuthority	An internal API extension to the default `Authority` adding privilege associations.
Privilege	An interface for all Privileges.
SpaceAuthority.Filter<T>	interface for data access filtering.
SpaceAuthority.NegateFilter<T>	interface for restrictive data access filtering.

Class Summary
Class	Description
Constants	Authority string format constants.
GrantedAuthorities	Encapsulates the authorities granted to a specific user, to ease access control and authorization decisions.
GridAuthority	Defines an Authority for managing grid services, with the specified privilege.
MonitorAuthority	Defines an Authority for monitoring a service, with the specified privilege.
PopulatedRoleAuthority	A role authority which holds all the authorities this role represents.
RoleAuthority	Defines an association of a role by-name.
SpaceAuthority	Defines an Authority for operating on Space (stored) data, with the specified privilege.
SpaceAuthority.ClassFilter	Class filter accepting only the defined class-name.
SpaceAuthority.NegateClassFilter	Class filter accepting only classes not of the defined class-name.
SpaceAuthority.NegatePackageFilter	Package filter accepting only packages not of the defined package.
SpaceAuthority.NegateRegexFilter	Negate a regular expression filter.
SpaceAuthority.PackageFilter	Package filter accepting only the defined package
SpaceAuthority.RegexFilter	Regular expression filter, using a regular expression as a pattern of characters that describes a set of strings.
SpaceAuthority.WildcardExpressionToFilterConverter	Convert a wildcard expression to a filter instance.
SystemAuthority	Defines an Authority for managing of users and roles.

Enum Summary
Enum	Description
GridAuthority.GridPrivilege	Defines managing services privileges
MonitorAuthority.MonitorPrivilege	Defines monitoring privileges
RoleAuthority.RolePrivilege	Empty placeholder for Role privilege (part of authority format)
SpaceAuthority.SpacePrivilege	Defines operation privileges
SystemAuthority.SystemPrivilege	Defines monitoring privileges

Package com.gigaspaces.security.authorities Description

Security Authorities

There are four categories of user authorities. These categories allow the flexibility of securing the different components of GigaSpaces. "Authority" refers to an abstraction given to a set of privileges of the same category. A "Privilege" (permission) is a granted right to perform an operation/action on a resource.