com.gigaspaces.security.authorities

Class GrantedAuthorities

java.lang.Object

com.gigaspaces.security.authorities.GrantedAuthorities

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public final class GrantedAuthorities
extends Object
implements Serializable

Encapsulates the authorities granted to a specific user, to ease access control and authorization decisions.

Since:

7.0.1

Author:

Moran Avigdor

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
GrantedAuthorities(Authority[] authorities)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	isGranted(Privilege privilege) Evaluates to true if has been granted the required privilege, disregarding any classname filters of a SpaceAuthority.
boolean	isGranted(Privilege privilege, Object object) Evaluates to true if has been granted the required privileges to access the specified object.
boolean	isUserInRole(String role) Returns a boolean indicating whether the authenticated user is included in the specified logical "role".

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

GrantedAuthorities

public GrantedAuthorities(Authority[] authorities)

Method Detail

isGranted

public boolean isGranted(Privilege privilege)

Evaluates to true if has been granted the required privilege, disregarding any classname filters of a SpaceAuthority.

Parameters:

privilege - the required privilege.

Returns:

true if the required privilege was granted; false otherwise.

isGranted

public boolean isGranted(Privilege privilege,
                         Object object)

Evaluates to true if has been granted the required privileges to access the specified object. The data object parameter is used against one of the SpaceAuthority.Filters; if null will return false. Currently all implemented filters accept an object of type String.

Parameters:

privilege - the required privilege

object - the data object (can be null)

Returns:

true if the required privilege to access the object was granted; false otherwise.

isUserInRole

public boolean isUserInRole(String role)

Returns a boolean indicating whether the authenticated user is included in the specified logical "role".

Parameters:

role - a String specifying the name of the role

Returns:

a boolean indicating whether the user making this request belongs to a given role; false if the user has not been authenticated