org.xwiki.security.authorization

Interface AuthorizationManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultAuthorizationManager

@Role
public interface AuthorizationManager

This API is for checking the access rights of any users on any XWiki entities. It replaces com.xpn.xwiki.user.api.XWikiRightService and provides better extensibility and improved performance while being almost fully compatible with the existing implementation. See org.xwiki.security.authorization.internal.XWikiCachingRightService for a bridge to this new authorization manager for legacy code. The AuthorisationManager does not provide any help for authentication. Authentication should be provided by another components, yet to be written. Neither this authorization manager has any real use of the context (except for some still to be refactored stuffs, like the read-only mode of XWiki), see ContextualAuthorizationManager for this purpose.

Since:

4.0M2

Version:

$Id: a7e8e226bce1f91e39fde7883ee43c6db5a7902d $

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	SUPERADMIN_USER The Superadmin username.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	checkAccess(Right right, DocumentReference userReference, EntityReference entityReference) Check if the user identified by userReference has the access identified by right on the entity identified by entityReference.
boolean	hasAccess(Right right, DocumentReference userReference, EntityReference entityReference) Verifies if the user identified by userReference has the access identified by right on the entity identified by entityReference.
Right	register(RightDescription rightDescription) Register a new custom Right.

Field Detail

SUPERADMIN_USER

static final String SUPERADMIN_USER

The Superadmin username.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

checkAccess

void checkAccess(Right right,
               DocumentReference userReference,
               EntityReference entityReference)
                 throws AccessDeniedException

Check if the user identified by userReference has the access identified by right on the entity identified by entityReference. Note that some rights may be checked higher in hierarchy of the provided entity if such right is not enabled at lowest hierarchy level provided. This function should be used at security checkpoint.

Parameters:

right - the right needed for execution of the action

userReference - the user to check the right for

entityReference - the entity on which to check the right

Throws:

AccessDeniedException - if the action should be denied, which may also happen when an error occurs

hasAccess

boolean hasAccess(Right right,
                DocumentReference userReference,
                EntityReference entityReference)

Verifies if the user identified by userReference has the access identified by right on the entity identified by entityReference. Note that some rights may be checked higher in hierarchy of the provided entity if such right is not enabled at lowest hierarchy level provided. This function should be used for interface matters, use checkAccess(org.xwiki.security.authorization.Right, org.xwiki.model.reference.DocumentReference, org.xwiki.model.reference.EntityReference) at security checkpoints.

Parameters:

right - the right to check .

userReference - the user to check the right for

entityReference - the entity on which to check the right

Returns:

true if the user has the specified right on the entity, false otherwise

register

Right register(RightDescription rightDescription)
               throws UnableToRegisterRightException

Register a new custom Right.

Parameters:

rightDescription - the full description of the new Right

Returns:

the created Right

Throws:

UnableToRegisterRightException - if an error prevent creation of the new right. Registering exactly the same right does not cause an exception and return the existing right.