net.coalevo.security.model
Interface Authorizations

public interface Authorizations

Defines a container for Authorizations.

The two types of authorizations defined in the Coalevo platform are:

1. Permissions (instance of Permission)
2. Roles (instances of Role

Permissions are actually associated with roles, and resolved into a set according to a simple alogrithm.

Version:

1.0.0 (10/02/2009)

Author:

Dieter Wimberger (wimpi)

Method Summary

java.util.Set<java.lang.String>	getRolenames() Returns an unmodifiable set of the names of all roles of the corresponding agent.
boolean	hasPermission(java.lang.String id) Checks if this Agent has a permission specified by the given name.
boolean	hasRole(java.lang.String id) Checks if this Agent has a role specified by the given identifier.

Method Detail

hasPermission

boolean hasPermission(java.lang.String id)

Checks if this Agent has a permission specified by the given name.

Parameters:

id - a String that identifies a permission.

Returns:

true if allowed and not denied, false otherwise.

hasRole

boolean hasRole(java.lang.String id)

Checks if this Agent has a role specified by the given identifier.

Parameters:

id - a String identifier for a Role instance.

Returns:

true if this Authorizations instance contains the given role.

getRolenames

java.util.Set<java.lang.String> getRolenames()

Returns an unmodifiable set of the names of all roles of the corresponding agent.

Returns:

an unmodifiable Set of String elements.