net.sf.jguard.security
Interface PermissionProvider

All Known Subinterfaces:

AuthorizationManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAuthorizationManager, DB2AuthorizationManager, JdbcAuthorizationManager, MySQLAuthorizationManager, OracleAuthorizationManager, PostgreSQLAuthorizationManager, XmlAuthorizationManager

public interface PermissionProvider

PermissionProvider interface is base interface for AuthorizationManager. This interface is introduced to make coupling of JGuardPolicy to other classes in the framework as small as possible.

Author:

Theo Niemeijer

Method Summary

java.security.PermissionCollection	getPermissionCollection(java.util.Set principals) Get permission collection.
void	init(java.util.Map options) Init AuthorizationManager implementation with a parameters map.
void	refresh() refresh principals and permissions data.

Method Detail

init

public void init(java.util.Map options)

Init AuthorizationManager implementation with a parameters map.

Parameters:

options - - map value for options

getPermissionCollection

public java.security.PermissionCollection getPermissionCollection(java.util.Set principals)

Get permission collection.

Parameters:

principals - - set value for principals

Returns:

permission collection value

refresh

public void refresh()

refresh principals and permissions data.