com.sun.mdm.index.security
Interface SecurityMaskPlugIn

public interface SecurityMaskPlugIn

Method Summary

java.lang.String[]	fieldsToCheck() these fields values are checked by SecurityMaskPlugIn when masking data.
void	maskData(ObjectNode objectNode, EJBContext context) mask or guard the objectNode.

Method Detail

fieldsToCheck

public java.lang.String[] fieldsToCheck()

these fields values are checked by SecurityMaskPlugIn when masking data. So the objectNode passed to maskData must have data for such fields.

Returns:

list of fields.

maskData

public void maskData(ObjectNode objectNode,
                     EJBContext context)
              throws SecurityException

mask or guard the objectNode. It is up to the implementation class to implement the business rule to modify the contents of objectNode. A different implementation class for each SecurityMaskPlugIn can be associated with different previliges of a user. So in this class you don't check for previleges of a user, rather based on the user previlges appropriate implementation class of SecurityMaskPlugIn is invoked by the SecurityAgent.

Parameters:

objectNode - The objectNode whose data can be modified. This can be any composite objectNode structure.

Throws:

SecurityException - error occured