org.xmlecho.palomar.security
Interface PermissionSet

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public interface PermissionSet

Interface to check and set Permissions. It represents a Unix-Style authorization scheme. Client code can provide an implementation of this and ask the security service to validate a user's authority to perform a given operation on the object.

Method Summary

int	getOwnerID()
int	getOwningGroupID()
PermBits	getPermissions() Obtain a PermBits object representing access permissions.

Method Detail

getPermissions

public PermBits getPermissions()

Obtain a PermBits object representing access permissions. The PermBits should contain 32 bits with this interpretation:

• bit 0: owner Read
• bit 1: owner Write
• bit 3: owner Execute
• bit 4: Reserved for future ussage
• bit 5: group Read
• bit 6: group Write
• bit 7: group Execute
• bit 8: Reserved for future usage
• bit 9: World Read
• bit 10: World Write
• bit 11: World Execute
• bit12-31: Reserved for future use

Returns:

a PermBits object representing the permission

getOwnerID

public int getOwnerID()

Returns:

the ID of the owner of the item with the above permission bits.

getOwningGroupID

public int getOwningGroupID()

Returns:

the ID of the owner group of the item with the above permission bits.