com.holonplatform.auth

Interface Permission

All Superinterfaces:

Serializable

public interface Permission
extends Serializable

Represents a generic permission granted to a principal in authorization context and associated to an Authentication object.

Could be for example a role associated to a user principal.

Explicit equals(Object) and hashCode() methods implementation is expected for a proper authorization control behaviour.

Since:

5.0.0

See Also:

Authorizer

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static Permission	create(String permission) Create a default Permission implementation, using given permission String to represent permission authority.
boolean	equals(Object permission)
Optional<String>	getPermission() If this permission can be represented as a String retaining a sufficient precision to be relied upon for a access control decisions, this method should return such string.
int	hashCode()

Method Detail

getPermission

Optional<String> getPermission()

If this permission can be represented as a String retaining a sufficient precision to be relied upon for a access control decisions, this method should return such string.

Returns:

a representation of the Permission, or empty if this permission cannot be expressed as a String with sufficient precision

hashCode

int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

equals

boolean equals(Object permission)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

create

static Permission create(String permission)

Create a default Permission implementation, using given permission String to represent permission authority.

Parameters:

permission - String representation of the permission. Must be not null.

Returns:

Permission instance