atg.servlet.security
Class ServletSecurityUtils

java.lang.Object
  atg.servlet.security.ServletSecurityUtils

public class ServletSecurityUtils
extends java.lang.Object

UserResolver is a collection of static methods to help Security Servlets and droplets to resolve the User instance from the current HttpSession as well as to see if a an element from a list of Personae is represented within User

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

CLASS_VERSION Class version string

Constructor Summary

ServletSecurityUtils()

Method Summary

static User	currentUser(java.lang.String pPath, DynamoHttpServletRequest pRequest) Given a path and the handle to the current request, this static call will resolve the User instance and return it
static boolean	stringArrayToPersonaArray(java.lang.String[] pNames, Persona[] pPersonae, UserAuthority pUserAuthority) Takes an array of Personae names which should be contained in a given UserAuthority, and converts them into an array of Personae instances returns true if convertions was successful.
static boolean	userHasPersona(User pUser, UserAuthority pUserAuthority, Persona[] pGroups) Checks to see if pUser has a Persona in the given array of Personae It is up to the caller to insure the integrity of the arguments provided to this function call.
static boolean	userHasPersona(User pUser, UserAuthority pUserAuthority, java.lang.String[] pGroups) Checks to see if pUser has a Persona in the given array of Personae It is up to the caller to insure the integrity of the arguments provided to this function call.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

CLASS_VERSION

public static java.lang.String CLASS_VERSION

Class version string

Constructor Detail

ServletSecurityUtils

public ServletSecurityUtils()

Method Detail

currentUser

public static User currentUser(java.lang.String pPath,
                               DynamoHttpServletRequest pRequest)

Given a path and the handle to the current request, this static call will resolve the User instance and return it

Parameters:

pPath - the path to where the User definition lies

pRequest - the current HTTP request (what holds the state)

Returns:

User instance

userHasPersona

public static boolean userHasPersona(User pUser,
                                     UserAuthority pUserAuthority,
                                     Persona[] pGroups)

Checks to see if pUser has a Persona in the given array of Personae It is up to the caller to insure the integrity of the arguments provided to this function call.

Parameters:

pGroups - an array of Personae that represent different user groups

pUser - is an instance of User class which could contain 0 or N Personae

pUserAuthority - UserAuthority instance with which pUser was authenticated

Returns:

true, if the pUser contains at least one of the elements specified in pGroups

userHasPersona

public static boolean userHasPersona(User pUser,
                                     UserAuthority pUserAuthority,
                                     java.lang.String[] pGroups)

Checks to see if pUser has a Persona in the given array of Personae It is up to the caller to insure the integrity of the arguments provided to this function call.

Parameters:

pGroups - an array of names of groups that represent different user personae

pUser - is an instance of User class which could contain 0 or N Personae

pUserAuthority - UserAuthority instance with which pUser was authenticated

Returns:

true, if the pUser contains at least one of the elements specified in pGroups

stringArrayToPersonaArray

public static boolean stringArrayToPersonaArray(java.lang.String[] pNames,
                                                Persona[] pPersonae,
                                                UserAuthority pUserAuthority)

Takes an array of Personae names which should be contained in a given UserAuthority, and converts them into an array of Personae instances returns true if convertions was successful. It is up to the caller to insure the integrity of the arguments passed to this function call.

Parameters:

pNames - an array of String that represent different user groups

pPersonae - is initially empty array of the same size as pNames, which should be filled out by the end of the operation.

pUserAuthority - UserAuthority instance which should contain approprite personae

Returns:

true, if the operation was successful, and false otherwise