java.security.PolicySpi Maven / Gradle / Ivy
/*
* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
* contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
* this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
* The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
* (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
* the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package java.security;
/**
* Represents the Service Provider Interface (SPI) for java.security.Policy
* class.
*
* If there is any class that wants to provide a Policy implementation, all
* abstract methods in this SPI should be implemented.
*
*
The detailed implementations should offer a public constructor, in which a
* Policy.Paramters implementation acts as an input parameter.If the
* Policy.Paramters input cannot by understood by the constructor, an
* IllegalArgumentException will be thrown.
*/
public abstract class PolicySpi {
public PolicySpi() {
// default constructor
}
/**
* Answers if the policy has granted a Permission to a
* ProtectionDomain.
*
* @param domain -
* the domain to check.
* @param permission -
* check whether this permission is granted to the specified
* domain.
* @return - true if the permission is granted to the domain.
*
*/
protected abstract boolean engineImplies(ProtectionDomain domain,
Permission permission);
/**
* Refreshes/reloads the policy configuration. The behavior of this method
* depends on the implementation. For example, calling refresh on a
* file-based policy will cause the file to be re-read.
*
* The default implementation of this method does nothing. This method
* should be overridden if a refresh operation is supported by the policy
* implementation.
*
*/
protected void engineRefresh() {
// do nothing in default implementation
}
/**
* Answers a PermissionCollection object containing the set of permissions
* granted to the specified CodeSource.
*
* The default implementation of this method returns
* Policy.UNSUPPORTED_EMPTY_COLLECTION object. This method can be overridden
* if the policy implementation can return a set of permissions granted to a
* CodeSource.
*
* @param codesource -
* the CodeSource to which the returned PermissionCollection has
* been granted.
* @return a set of permissions granted to the specified CodeSource. If this
* operation is supported, the returned set of permissions must be a
* new mutable instance and it must support heterogeneous Permission
* types. If this operation is not supported,
* Policy.UNSUPPORTED_EMPTY_COLLECTION is returned.
*/
protected PermissionCollection engineGetPermissions(CodeSource codesource) {
return Policy.UNSUPPORTED_EMPTY_COLLECTION;
}
/**
* Answers a PermissionCollection object containing the set of permissions
* granted to the specified ProtectionDomain.
*
* The default implementation of this method returns
* Policy.UNSUPPORTED_EMPTY_COLLECTION object. This method can be overridden
* if the policy implementation can return a set of permissions granted to a
* ProtectionDomain.
*
* @param domain -
* the ProtectionDomain to which the returned
* PermissionCollection has been granted.
* @return a set of permissions granted to the specified ProtectionDomain.
* If this operation is supported, the returned set of permissions
* must be a new mutable instance and it must support heterogeneous
* Permission types. If this operation is not supported,
* Policy.UNSUPPORTED_EMPTY_COLLECTION is returned.
*/
protected PermissionCollection engineGetPermissions(ProtectionDomain domain) {
return Policy.UNSUPPORTED_EMPTY_COLLECTION;
}
}