jet.server.api.admin.security
Interface JGroup

All Superinterfaces:

JPrincipal, java.security.Principal, java.io.Serializable

public interface JGroup
extends JPrincipal

This interface is used to represent a group of principals for JReport server. (A principal represents an entity such as an individual user or a company). A group can have one or more parent groups, as well as sub groups. If it has some parent groups, it would inherit permissions from its parent groups. If it has some sub groups, its sub groups would inherit permissions from it. A group can have one or more roles. If it has some roles, it was assigned the permissions specified by the roles. A group can have one or more user. If it has some users, the users would inherit permissions from it.

See Also:

JRole, JUser

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface jet.server.api.admin.security.JPrincipal

SEPARATOR

Method Summary

java.lang.String[]	getParentGroupNames() Gets all the names of parent groups of a group.
java.lang.String[]	getRoleNames() Gets all the names of the roles of a group.
java.lang.String[]	getSubGroupNames() Gets all the names of sub groups of a group.
java.lang.String[]	getUserNames() Gets all the names of the users of a group.

Methods inherited from interface jet.server.api.admin.security.JPrincipal

getDescription, getDisplayName, getOrganization, getType

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Principal

equals, getName, hashCode, toString

Method Detail

getParentGroupNames

java.lang.String[] getParentGroupNames()

Gets all the names of parent groups of a group. The names are put into a Array of String.

Returns:

A Array of String, if the group has no parent group, the size of the Array is 0.

getSubGroupNames

java.lang.String[] getSubGroupNames()

Gets all the names of sub groups of a group. The names are put into a Array of String.

Returns:

A Array of String, if the group has no sub group, the size of the Array is 0.

getRoleNames

java.lang.String[] getRoleNames()

Gets all the names of the roles of a group. The names are put into a Array of String.

Returns:

A Array of String, if the group has no role, the size of the Array is 0.

getUserNames

java.lang.String[] getUserNames()

Gets all the names of the users of a group. The names are put into a Array of String.

Returns:

A Array of String, if the group has no user, the size of the Array is 0.