net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.security

Interface AccessControlService

All Superinterfaces:

Component, IdentifiedComponent, InitializableComponent, UnmodifiableComponent

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicAccessControlService, DelegatingAccessControlService

@ThreadSafe
public interface AccessControlService
extends InitializableComponent, IdentifiedComponent, UnmodifiableComponent

A component that supplies AccessControl instances identified by a policy name.

Policy names are an abstraction that can be used in a component's configuration to indicate which access control configuration to apply, creating a layer of indirection so that policies can be reused across components.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AccessControl	getInstance(String name) Get an AccessControl instance matching a given name.

Methods inherited from interface net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.component.InitializableComponent

initialize, isInitialized

Methods inherited from interface net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.component.IdentifiedComponent

getId

Method Detail

getInstance

@Nonnull
AccessControl getInstance(@Nonnull
                                   String name)

Get an AccessControl instance matching a given name.

In the absence of a matching instance, a default policy that denies access is returned.

Parameters:

name - policy name

Returns:

the matching instance, or a default