com.ecyrd.jspwiki.auth.authorize

Interface WebAuthorizer

All Superinterfaces:

Authorizer

All Known Implementing Classes:

WebContainerAuthorizer

public interface WebAuthorizer
extends Authorizer

Extends the Authorizer interface by including a delgate method for javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest#isUserInRole(String).

Author:

Andrew Jaquith

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	isUserInRole(HttpServletRequest request, java.security.Principal role) Determines whether a user associated with an HTTP request possesses a particular role.

Methods inherited from interface com.ecyrd.jspwiki.auth.Authorizer

findRole, getRoles, initialize

Method Detail

isUserInRole

boolean isUserInRole(HttpServletRequest request,
                     java.security.Principal role)

Determines whether a user associated with an HTTP request possesses a particular role. This method simply delegates to javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest#isUserInRole(String) by converting the Principal's name to a String.

Specified by:

isUserInRole in interface Authorizer

Parameters:

request - the HTTP request

role - the role to check

Returns:

true if the user is considered to be in the role, false otherwise