com.sapportals.wcm.protocol.webdav.repository.acl

Interface IAce

public interface IAce

Represents a single grant or deny of a set of IPrivileges, a Access Control Entry (part of an Access Control List, see WDAcl).

A IAce has the following properties:

• a principal: for whom privileges are granted or denied.
• a type: GRANT or DENY
• readonly: indicates that this ACE is not changeable for a resource
• inherited: indicates that this ACE was inherited from a parent resource
• privileges: a list of IPrivileges

Copyright (c) SAP AG 2001-2005

Field Summary

static int	DENY Type of ACE is denying privileges to principal
static int	GRANT Type of ACE is granting privileges to principal

Method Summary

com.sap.security.api.IPrincipal	getPrincipal() Returns the principal whose access is controlled
Set	getPrivileges() Returns the List of privileges which are granted or denied
int	getType() Returns if this entry is GRANT or DENY
boolean	grants(IPrivilege privilege) Determine if privilege is granted by this ace
boolean	isGrant() Returns if this entry is GRANT
boolean	isInherited() Returns if this entry was inherited from another resource
boolean	isReadOnly() Returns if this entry is protected, e.g. cannot be changed.
Element	toElement(Document doc, com.sapportals.wcm.util.uri.IHierarchicalUri servletUri) Return a DOM Element representing this ACE as defined in the WebDAV Accesss Control Protocol Specification

Field Detail

GRANT

static final int GRANT

Type of ACE is granting privileges to principal

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Constant Field Values

DENY

static final int DENY

Type of ACE is denying privileges to principal

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getPrincipal

com.sap.security.api.IPrincipal getPrincipal()

Returns the principal whose access is controlled

getPrivileges

Set getPrivileges()

Returns the List of privileges which are granted or denied

Returns:

the list of IPrivileges in this ACE

getType

int getType()

Returns if this entry is GRANT or DENY

Returns:

the type of this ACE

grants

boolean grants(IPrivilege privilege)

Determine if privilege is granted by this ace

Parameters:

privilege - to check for

Returns:

if privileges is granted

isGrant

boolean isGrant()

Returns if this entry is GRANT

Returns:

if this ACE is granting privileges

isInherited

boolean isInherited()

Returns if this entry was inherited from another resource

Returns:

if this ACE was inherited

isReadOnly

boolean isReadOnly()

Returns if this entry is protected, e.g. cannot be changed.

Returns:

if this ACE is read only

toElement

Element toElement(Document doc,
                  com.sapportals.wcm.util.uri.IHierarchicalUri servletUri)

Return a DOM Element representing this ACE as defined in the WebDAV Accesss Control Protocol Specification

Parameters:

doc - the DOM Document to create the Element in

servletUri - base URI of servlet

Returns:

the created Element

Access Rights

This class can be accessed from:

SC	DC	Public Part	ACH
[sap.com] KMC-WPC	[sap.com] tc/kmc/wpc/wpcfacade	api	EP-PIN-WPC-WCM
[sap.com] KMC-CM	[sap.com] tc/km/frwk	api	EP-KM-CM