Package org.xwiki.security.authorization

Interface Summary

AuthorizationManager	This is a new experimental API for checking the access rights of users on xwiki entities.
AuthorizationManagerConfiguration	Configuration of the AuthorizationManager.
AuthorizationSettler	An AuthorizationSettler compute the resulting access for a given user, a list of groups, and a hierarchy of rights objects defining rights on a given entity.
RightDescription	Describe a Right, allow adding new Rights, also implemented by the Right class.
SecurityAccess	Provide the allow/deny/undetermined state of a full set of rights.
SecurityAccessEntry	A security access entry is the association of a user, an entity and a security access that represent an authorization settler decision.
SecurityEntry	A security entry is the association of an entity and a set of security rules that constitute a elementary declarative information for the security settler to compute the security access of users.
SecurityEntryReader	A security rules reader reads rules attached to a given entity.
SecurityRule	A security rule, representing a declarative access right for some users, groups, and rights.
SecurityRuleEntry	A security entry is the association of an entity and a set of security rules that constitute a elementary declarative information for the security settler to compute the security access of users.

Class Summary

DefaultAuthorizationManager	Default implementation of the AuthorizationManager.
Right	Enumeration of the possible rights.
RightMap<V>	Optimized map implementation with a key of type Right.
RightSet	Optimized set of Right.

Enum Summary

RuleState

The state of a particular right as determined by a security rule.

Exception Summary

AccessDeniedException	Exception raised by the AuthorizationManager when denying access.
AuthorizationException	This is the base exception raised for various reasons by the authorization module.
EntityTypeNotSupportedException	Thrown when attempting to load a right for an unsupported entity type.
UnableToRegisterRightException	Raised when the authorization manager fails to register a new right for any reason.