atg.security
Interface RemoteUserAuthority

All Superinterfaces:

AccountTypes, java.rmi.Remote

All Known Implementing Classes:

RemoteUserAuthorityImpl

public interface RemoteUserAuthority
extends java.rmi.Remote, AccountTypes

Minimal interface that must be implemented by user authorities whose personae can be serialized.

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

CLASS_VERSION

Fields inherited from interface atg.security.AccountTypes

ANY_ACCOUNT, GROUP_ACCOUNT, LOGIN_ACCOUNT, PRIVILEGE_ACCOUNT

Method Summary

Persona	getPersona(java.lang.Object pId) Returns a persona for the given ID object.
Persona[]	getPersonae(int pAccountType) Returns all personae of a given type if the remote user authority also implements the AccountManager interface.
Persona[]	getPersonae(java.lang.Object[] pIds) Returns a set of personae from a set of IDs.
java.lang.String	getUserAuthorityName() Returns the name of the user authority.

Field Detail

CLASS_VERSION

static final java.lang.String CLASS_VERSION

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getUserAuthorityName

java.lang.String getUserAuthorityName()
                                      throws java.rmi.RemoteException

Returns the name of the user authority.

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException

getPersona

Persona getPersona(java.lang.Object pId)
                   throws java.rmi.RemoteException

Returns a persona for the given ID object. This is typically used by an ACL parser, where the ID is usually a string. Returns null if there is no persona for the indicated ID.

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException

getPersonae

Persona[] getPersonae(java.lang.Object[] pIds)
                      throws java.rmi.RemoteException

Returns a set of personae from a set of IDs. This is intended to be a performance enhancer when you want to reduce RMI traffic.

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException

getPersonae

Persona[] getPersonae(int pAccountType)
                      throws java.rmi.RemoteException

Returns all personae of a given type if the remote user authority also implements the AccountManager interface. If it does not, this will return null.

This method is intended to be used by the ClientUserAuthority.loadPersonae() method to preload the client-side persona cache as a performance enhancement.

Throws:

java.rmi.RemoteException