org.acegisecurity.acls
Interface AclService

All Known Subinterfaces:

MutableAclService

All Known Implementing Classes:

JdbcAclService, JdbcMutableAclService

public interface AclService

Provides retrieval of Acl instances.

Version:

$Id: AclService.java 1754 2006-11-17 02:01:21Z benalex $

Author:

Ben Alex

Method Summary

ObjectIdentity[]	findChildren(ObjectIdentity parentIdentity) Locates all object identities that use the specified parent.
Acl	readAclById(ObjectIdentity object) Same as readAclsById(ObjectIdentity[]) except it returns only a single Acl.
Acl	readAclById(ObjectIdentity object, Sid[] sids) Same as readAclsById(ObjectIdentity[], Sid[]) except it returns only a single Acl.
Map	readAclsById(ObjectIdentity[] objects) Obtains all the Acls that apply for the passed Objects.
Map	readAclsById(ObjectIdentity[] objects, Sid[] sids) Obtains all the Acls that apply for the passed Objects, but only for the security identifies passed.

Method Detail

findChildren

ObjectIdentity[] findChildren(ObjectIdentity parentIdentity)

Locates all object identities that use the specified parent. This is useful for administration tools.

Parameters:

parentIdentity - to locate children of

Returns:

the children (or null if none were found)

readAclById

Acl readAclById(ObjectIdentity object)
                throws NotFoundException

Same as readAclsById(ObjectIdentity[]) except it returns only a single Acl.

This method should not be called as it does not leverage the underlaying implementation's potential ability to filter Acl entries based on a Sid parameter.

Parameters:

object - DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

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Throws:

NotFoundException - DOCUMENT ME!

readAclById

Acl readAclById(ObjectIdentity object,
                Sid[] sids)
                throws NotFoundException

Same as readAclsById(ObjectIdentity[], Sid[]) except it returns only a single Acl.

Parameters:

object - DOCUMENT ME!

sids - DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

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Throws:

NotFoundException - DOCUMENT ME!

readAclsById

Map readAclsById(ObjectIdentity[] objects)
                 throws NotFoundException

Obtains all the Acls that apply for the passed Objects.

The returned map is keyed on the passed objects, with the values being the Acl instances. Any unknown objects will not have a map key.

Parameters:

objects - the objects to find ACL information for

Returns:

a map with zero or more elements (never null)

Throws:

NotFoundException - DOCUMENT ME!

readAclsById

Map readAclsById(ObjectIdentity[] objects,
                 Sid[] sids)
                 throws NotFoundException

Obtains all the Acls that apply for the passed Objects, but only for the security identifies passed.

Implementations MAY provide a subset of the ACLs via this method although this is NOT a requirement. This is intended to allow performance optimisations within implementations. Callers should therefore use this method in preference to the alternative overloaded version which does not have performance optimisation opportunities.

The returned map is keyed on the passed objects, with the values being the Acl instances. Any unknown objects (or objects for which the interested Sids do not have entries) will not have a map key.

Parameters:

objects - the objects to find ACL information for

sids - the security identities for which ACL information is required (may be null to denote all entries)

Returns:

a map with zero or more elements (never null)

Throws:

NotFoundException - DOCUMENT ME!