weblogic.security.jacc
Class RoleMapperFactory

java.lang.Object
  weblogic.security.jacc.RoleMapperFactory

public abstract class RoleMapperFactory
extends Object

Abstract factory class for RoleMapper.

See Also:

RoleMapper

RoleMapperFactory

public RoleMapperFactory()

Class noarg constructor.

getRoleMapperFactory

public static RoleMapperFactory getRoleMapperFactory()
                                              throws ClassNotFoundException,
                                                     PolicyContextException

Returns an instance of a configured RoleMapperFactory (weblogic.security.jacc.RoleMapperFactory.provider).

Returns:

An instance of RoleMapperFactory.

Throws:

ClassNotFoundException

PolicyContextException

getRoleMapper

public abstract RoleMapper getRoleMapper(String appID,
                                         boolean remove)

Returns a RoleMapper for the provided application ID, optionally removing all role and policy information from the RoleMapper before returning it.

Parameters:

appID - A String representing the application ID, which is used to find the appropriate RoleMapper.

remove - A boolean indicating whether or not an empty RoleMapper should be returned (without any role to principal information).

Returns:

RoleMapper matching the passed in appID.

getRoleMapper

public abstract RoleMapper getRoleMapper(String appID,
                                         String contextID,
                                         boolean remove)

Returns a RoleMapper for the provided application ID, optionally removing all role and policy information from the RoleMapper before returning it. It links the provided context ID to the application ID so that PolicyConfigurations can retrieve role-to-principal mappings using their context ID.

Parameters:

appID - A String representing the application ID, which is used to find the appropriate RoleMapper.

contextID - A String representing the contextID to associate with the passed in appID.

remove - A boolean indicating whether or not an empty RoleMapper should be returned (without any role-to-principal information).

Returns:

RoleMapper matching the passed in appID.

getRoleMapperForContextID

public abstract RoleMapper getRoleMapperForContextID(String contextID)

Returns a RoleMapper for the provided context ID.

Parameters:

contextID - A String representing the context ID, which is used to find the appropriate RoleMapper.

Returns:

RoleMapper matching the passed in contextID.

removeRoleMapper

public abstract void removeRoleMapper(String appID)

Deletes a RoleMapper for the provided application ID, and any associated appID-to-contextID mappings.

Parameters:

appID - A String representing the appID, which is used to find the appropriate RoleMapper.