atg.security
Interface ProxyUserAuthority

All Superinterfaces:

UserAuthority

All Known Implementing Classes:

GenericProxyUserAuthority, LDAPAuthenticationProxy, SerializedProxyUserAuthority, atg.userdirectory.UserDirectoryLoginUserAuthority

public interface ProxyUserAuthority
extends UserAuthority

A user authority that acts as a proxy for another user authority. This is useful in cases (such as Nucleus) where the real user authority cannot be created until after some secured objects (particularly Persona objects, often within access control entries) have been created.

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

CLASS_VERSION

Method Summary

UserAuthority	getUserAuthority() Returns the real user authority that this proxy is a substitute for, if possible.
void	setUserAuthority(UserAuthority newAuthority) Changes the real user authority that this proxy is a substitute for, if possible.

Methods inherited from interface atg.security.UserAuthority

addAuthenticationFailedListener, addAuthenticationSucceededListener, getPersona, getUserAuthorityName, removeAuthenticationFailedListener, removeAuthenticationSucceededListener, userDestroyed

Field Detail

CLASS_VERSION

static final java.lang.String CLASS_VERSION

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getUserAuthority

UserAuthority getUserAuthority()

Returns the real user authority that this proxy is a substitute for, if possible. If no authority is known this should return "this" (ie not null).

setUserAuthority

void setUserAuthority(UserAuthority newAuthority)

Changes the real user authority that this proxy is a substitute for, if possible.