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package org.acegisecurity.providers.jaas;

import java.security.Principal;

import java.util.Set;


/**
 * The AuthorityGranter interface is used to map a given principal to role
 * names.
 * 
 * 

* If a Windows NT login module were to be used from JAAS, an AuthrityGranter * implementation could be created to map a NT Group Principal to a ROLE_USER * role for instance.
*

* * @author Ray Krueger * @version $Id: AuthorityGranter.java 1496 2006-05-23 13:38:33Z benalex $ */ public interface AuthorityGranter { //~ Methods ======================================================================================================== /** * The grant method is called for each principal returned from the LoginContext subject. If the * AuthorityGranter wishes to grant any authorities, it should return a java.util.Set containing the role names it * wishes to grant, such as ROLE_USER. If the AuthrityGranter does not wish to grant any authorities it should * return null.
* The set may contain any object as all objects in the returned set will be passed to the JaasGrantedAuthority * constructor using toString(). * * @param principal One of the principals from the LoginContext.getSubect().getPrincipals() method. * * @return A java.util.Set of role names to grant, or null meaning no roles should be granted for the principal. */ public Set grant(Principal principal); }




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