org.jboss.security
Class NestableGroup

java.lang.Object
  org.jboss.security.SimplePrincipal
      org.jboss.security.NestableGroup

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable, Group, Principal

public class NestableGroup
extends SimplePrincipal
implements Group, Cloneable

An implementation of Group that allows that acts as a stack of Groups with a single Group member active at any time. When one adds a Group to a NestableGroup the Group is pushed onto the active Group stack and any of the Group methods operate as though the NestableGroup contains only the Group. When removing the Group that corresponds to the active Group, the active Group is popped from the stack and the new active Group is set to the new top of the stack. The typical usage of this class is when doing a JAAS LoginContext login to runAs a new Principal with a new set of roles that should be added without destroying the current identity and roles.

Version:

$Revision: 1.7.6.4 $

Author:

Scott.Stark@jboss.org

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

NestableGroup(String name)
Creates new NestableGroup with the given name

Method Summary

boolean	addMember(Principal group) Pushes the group onto the Group stack and makes it the active Group.
Object	clone()
boolean	isMember(Principal member) Returns true if the passed principal is a member of the active group.
Enumeration	members() Returns an enumeration that contains the single active Principal.
boolean	removeMember(Principal user) Removes the first occurence of user from the Principal stack.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class org.jboss.security.SimplePrincipal

equals, getName, hashCode

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Principal

equals, getName, hashCode

Constructor Detail

NestableGroup

public NestableGroup(String name)

Creates new NestableGroup with the given name

Method Detail

members

public Enumeration members()

Returns an enumeration that contains the single active Principal.

Specified by:

members in interface Group

Returns:

an Enumeration of the single active Principal.

removeMember

public boolean removeMember(Principal user)

Removes the first occurence of user from the Principal stack.

Specified by:

removeMember in interface Group

Parameters:

user - the principal to remove from this group.

Returns:

true if the principal was removed, or false if the principal was not a member.

addMember

public boolean addMember(Principal group)
                  throws IllegalArgumentException

Pushes the group onto the Group stack and makes it the active Group.

Specified by:

addMember in interface Group

Parameters:

group - the instance of Group that contains the roles to set as the active Group.

Returns:

true always.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - thrown if group is not an instance of Group.

isMember

public boolean isMember(Principal member)

Returns true if the passed principal is a member of the active group. This method does a recursive search, so if a principal belongs to a group which is a member of this group, true is returned.

Specified by:

isMember in interface Group

Parameters:

member - the principal whose membership is to be checked.

Returns:

true if the principal is a member of this group, false otherwise.

toString

public String toString()

Specified by:

toString in interface Principal

Overrides:

toString in class SimplePrincipal

clone

public Object clone()
             throws CloneNotSupportedException

Overrides:

clone in class Object

Throws:

CloneNotSupportedException