jet.server.api.custom.security.group
Interface GroupPermissionProvider

public interface GroupPermissionProvider

Within interfaces of JReport security API, GroupPermissionProvider is used to provide customized permission setting of group. Except getting group permission setting from customer's external security system, this interface also provide ability to modify group permission setting in customer's external security system.

Since:

version 8

Method Summary

java.util.Hashtable	getGroupPermissions(java.lang.String realmName, java.lang.String resourcePath, int versionNumber) Get all groups' permission setting attached to a specified resource or version node from customer's external secuirty system.
boolean	isEnableEdit() Indicates whether customer's external security system will be modified by invoking some methods in GroupPermissionProvider. In common cases, invokeing setGroupPermissions() should take effect on customer's external security system, and cause modification of external security system, this method should return true in such case.
void	setGroupPermissions(java.lang.String realmName, java.lang.String groupName, java.lang.String resourcePath, int versionNumber, java.lang.String permissionString) Set groups' permission setting for a specified resource or version node in customer's external secuirty system.

Method Detail

getGroupPermissions

java.util.Hashtable getGroupPermissions(java.lang.String realmName,
                                        java.lang.String resourcePath,
                                        int versionNumber)
                                        throws JRCustomerException

Get all groups' permission setting attached to a specified resource or version node from customer's external secuirty system.

Parameters:

realmName - the realm name

resourcePath - resource path to specify a resource

versionNumber - version number of the resource, a valid version number should be a positive integer, if versionNumber less than 1, it means want to get permission setting attached to the resouce which specified by resourcePath.

Returns:

the groups' permission setting for specified resource or version node. The permission setting is a Hashtable contains several group/permissions pair to represent permissions attached to specified resorce/version. In this Hashtable object, key is group name, value is a String object to represent permission setting for this group, this string's length is 7, every character represent status of a specified permission, available value is jet.cs.api.CSPermission.ALLOW and jet.cs.api.CSPermission.DENY The structure of Hashtable is: ::= NULL | {, }... ::= a string of group name ::= {}... ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW In CSPermission, value of DENY is 0, value of ALLOW is 1, a permissionString has 7 chars and it could be like: 0110100

Throws:

JRCustomerException - If an error occurs during JReport server security system invoking this method, and the implementation think should throw this error to JReport server security system.

setGroupPermissions

void setGroupPermissions(java.lang.String realmName,
                         java.lang.String groupName,
                         java.lang.String resourcePath,
                         int versionNumber,
                         java.lang.String permissionString)
                         throws NoSuchGroupException,
                                JRCustomerException

Set groups' permission setting for a specified resource or version node in customer's external secuirty system.

Parameters:

realmName - the realm name

groupName - the group name to specify a group want to set permissions

resourcePath - resource path to specify a resource

versionNumber - version number of the resource, a valid version number should be a positive integer, if versionNumber less than 1, it means want to set group permission for the resouce which specified by resourcePath.

permissionString - permission string to represent permissions for this group, this string's length is 7, every character represent status of a specified permission, available value is jet.cs.api.CSPermission.ALLOW and jet.cs.api.CSPermission.DENY The structure of permissionString is: ::= {}... ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW ::= CSPermission.DENY | CSPermission.ALLOW In CSPermission, value of DENY is 0, value of ALLOW is 1, a permissionString has 7 chars and it could be like: 0110100.
If the permissionString is null, means dont set specified group's permission for specified resource/version node.
If the permissionString's length is 0, means status of all permissions is CSPermission.DENY

Throws:

NoSuchGroupException - If there is no a group has specified name in customer's external security system.

JRCustomerException - If an error occurs during JReport server security system invoking this method, and the implementation think should throw this error to JReport server security system.

isEnableEdit

boolean isEnableEdit()

Indicates whether customer's external security system will be modified by invoking some methods in GroupPermissionProvider.
In common cases, invokeing setGroupPermissions() should take effect on customer's external security system, and cause modification of external security system, this method should return true in such case. If cusotmer's external security system will not be affected by invoking setGroupPermissions(), this method should return false.
Return value of method isEditing() with paramter SecurityWebAdaptor.ACTION_EDIT_GROUP_PERMISSIONS in jet.server.api.SecurityWebAdaptor is same with this method's return value.

Returns:

true if external security system will be affected by invoking setGroupPermissions(), otherwise return false.

See Also:

SecurityWebAdaptor