org.jboss.security

Class SimpleGroup

java.lang.Object

org.jboss.security.SimplePrincipal

org.jboss.security.SimpleGroup

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable, Group, Principal

public class SimpleGroup
extends SimplePrincipal
implements Group, Cloneable

An implementation of Group that manages a collection of Principal objects based on their hashCode() and equals() methods. This class is not thread safe.

Version:

$Revision$

Author:

Scott.Stark@jboss.org

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
SimpleGroup(String groupName)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	addMember(Principal user) Adds the specified member to the group.
Object	clone()
boolean	isMember(Principal member) Returns true if the passed principal is a member of the group.
Enumeration<Principal>	members() Returns an enumeration of the members in the group.
boolean	removeMember(Principal user) Removes the specified member from the group.
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

SimpleGroup

public SimpleGroup(String groupName)

Method Detail

addMember

public boolean addMember(Principal user)

Adds the specified member to the group.

Specified by:

addMember in interface Group

Parameters:

user - the principal to add to this group.

Returns:

true if the member was successfully added, false if the principal was already a member.

isMember

public boolean isMember(Principal member)

Returns true if the passed principal is a member of the 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. A special check is made to see if the member is an instance of org.jboss.security.AnybodyPrincipal or org.jboss.security.NobodyPrincipal since these classes do not hash to meaningful values.

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.

members

public Enumeration<Principal> members()

Returns an enumeration of the members in the group. The returned objects can be instances of either Principal or Group (which is a subinterface of Principal).

Specified by:

members in interface Group

Returns:

an enumeration of the group members.

removeMember

public boolean removeMember(Principal user)

Removes the specified member from the group.

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.

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