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Class Authorization

Interface representing any kind of authorization such as:

  • Role based authorization
  • Permission based authorization
  • Logical authorization (AND, OR, NOT)
  • Time based authorization (ie: allow access the last 5 days of the month, from 8am till 10am, etc.)
  • Context based authorization (ie: allow access if the ip address is 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx')
  • Custom based authorization (ie: based on a script or hard-coded code specific to an application)
  • etc.
The following implementations are provided out of the box:

Hierarchy

Index

Methods

Methods

match

  • this methods verifies whether or not the authorization match the specified context.

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

  • this methods verifies whether or not the authorization match the specified user. Internally a basic context is created with the user and the method delegates to {@link Authorization#match}

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

verify

  • this method verifies whether or not the authorization implies the specified authorization.
    Note that it doesn't always mean an exact match. For instance, in the case of a WildcardPermissionBasedAuthorization, this method may return true even if the permissions are different
    WildcardPermissionBasedAuthorization.create('*').verify(WildcardPermissionBasedAuthorization.create('anypermission')) would return true

    Parameters

    Returns boolean

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