securesocial.core.Authorization.scala Maven / Gradle / Ivy

/**
 * Copyright 2012-2014 Jorge Aliss (jaliss at gmail dot com) - twitter: @jaliss
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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package securesocial.core

import play.api.mvc.RequestHeader

/**
 * A trait to define Authorization objects that let you hook
 * an authorization implementation in SecuredActions
 *
 */
trait Authorization[U] {
  /**
   * Checks whether the user is authorized to execute an action or not.
   *
   * @param user
   * @return
   */
  def isAuthorized(user: U, request: RequestHeader): Boolean
}