org.overlord.commons.auth.util

Interface IRoleGenerator

public interface IRoleGenerator

Interface used to get the list of roles for the current user. Implementations of this interface must be runtime/platform/container specific, since there is no container agnostic mechanism to get the current list of roles.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	accept() Return true if the implementation is capable of generating roles for the current runtime platform.
Set<String>	generateRoles(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request) Generates the roles for the current user.

Method Detail

accept

boolean accept()

Return true if the implementation is capable of generating roles for the current runtime platform. This allows multiple implementations to be available at the same time, and only the appropriate one will be used.

Returns:

true if the impl accepts the current runtime

generateRoles

Set<String> generateRoles(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)

Generates the roles for the current user.

Returns:

the list of generated roles