org.apache.jackrabbit.core.security.principal
Class AbstractPrincipalProvider

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.jackrabbit.core.security.principal.AbstractPrincipalProvider

All Implemented Interfaces:

PrincipalProvider

Direct Known Subclasses:

DefaultPrincipalProvider

public abstract class AbstractPrincipalProvider
extends Object
implements PrincipalProvider

A base class of a principal provider implementing common tasks and a caching facility. Extending classes should only deal with the retrieval of Principals from their source, the caching of the principials is done by this implementation.

The PrincipalProvider mehtods that that involve searching like PrincipalProvider.getGroupMembership(Principal) are not cached.

Field Summary

static String

MAXSIZE_KEY Option name for the max size of the cache to use

Constructor Summary

protected

AbstractPrincipalProvider() Create a new instance of AbstractPrincipalProvider.

Method Summary

protected void	addToCache(Principal principal) Add an entry to the principal cache.
protected void	checkInitialized() Check if the instance has been closed close().
protected void	clearCache() Clear the principal cache.
void	close() Clears the cache and calls the implementation to close their resources
Principal	getPrincipal(String principalName) Returns the principal with the given name if is known to this provider
void	init(Properties options) Initialize this provider.
protected abstract Principal	providePrincipal(String principalName) Called if the cache does not contain the principal requested. Implementations should return a Principal from their source, if it contains one for the given name or null.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.jackrabbit.core.security.principal.PrincipalProvider

canReadPrincipal, findPrincipals, findPrincipals, getGroupMembership, getPrincipals

Field Detail

MAXSIZE_KEY

public static final String MAXSIZE_KEY

Option name for the max size of the cache to use

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

AbstractPrincipalProvider

protected AbstractPrincipalProvider()

Create a new instance of AbstractPrincipalProvider. Initialization and cache are set up upon init(Properties)

Method Detail

checkInitialized

protected void checkInitialized()

Check if the instance has been closed close().

Throws:

IllegalStateException - if this instance was closed.

clearCache

protected void clearCache()

Clear the principal cache.

addToCache

protected void addToCache(Principal principal)

Add an entry to the principal cache.

Parameters:

principal - to be cached.

providePrincipal

protected abstract Principal providePrincipal(String principalName)

Called if the cache does not contain the principal requested.
Implementations should return a Principal from their source, if it contains one for the given name or null.

Parameters:

principalName - Name of the principal to be returned.

Returns:

Principal or null, if non provided for the given name

See Also:

getPrincipal(String)

getPrincipal

public Principal getPrincipal(String principalName)

Returns the principal with the given name if is known to this provider providePrincipal(String) is called, if no principal with the given name is present in the cache.

Specified by:

getPrincipal in interface PrincipalProvider

Parameters:

principalName - the name of the principal to retrieve

Returns:

return the requested principal or null

init

public void init(Properties options)

Description copied from interface: PrincipalProvider

Initialize this provider.

Specified by:

init in interface PrincipalProvider

Parameters:

options - the options that are set

See Also:

PrincipalProvider.init(java.util.Properties)

close

public void close()

Clears the cache and calls the implementation to close their resources

Specified by:

close in interface PrincipalProvider

See Also:

PrincipalProvider.close()