org.fcrepo.server.security.xacml.pdp.finder.policy

Class GenericPolicyFinderModule

java.lang.Object

org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.finder.PolicyFinderModule

org.fcrepo.server.security.xacml.pdp.finder.policy.GenericPolicyFinderModule

public class GenericPolicyFinderModule
extends org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.finder.PolicyFinderModule

This is the PolicyFinderModule for the PDP. Its purpose is to basically find policies. It interacts with a PolicyManager in order to obtain a policy or policy set.

Author:

nishen@melcoe.mq.edu.au

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
GenericPolicyFinderModule(PolicyIndex policyIndex, org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.combine.PolicyCombiningAlgorithm combiningAlg)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.finder.PolicyFinderResult	findPolicy(org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.EvaluationCtx context) Finds a policy based on a request's context.
void	init() Initialize this module.
void	init(org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.finder.PolicyFinder policyFinder)
boolean	isRequestSupported() Always returns true since this module does support finding policies based on context.

Methods inherited from class org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.finder.PolicyFinderModule

findPolicy, getIdentifier, invalidateCache, isIdReferenceSupported

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

GenericPolicyFinderModule

public GenericPolicyFinderModule(PolicyIndex policyIndex,
                         org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.combine.PolicyCombiningAlgorithm combiningAlg)
                          throws PolicyIndexException,
                                 java.net.URISyntaxException

Throws:

PolicyIndexException

java.net.URISyntaxException

Method Detail

isRequestSupported

public boolean isRequestSupported()

Always returns true since this module does support finding policies based on context.

Overrides:

isRequestSupported in class org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.finder.PolicyFinderModule

Returns:

true

init

public void init()
          throws MelcoePDPException

Initialize this module. Typically this is called by PolicyFinder when a PDP is created.

Throws:

MelcoePDPException

findPolicy

public org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.finder.PolicyFinderResult findPolicy(org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.EvaluationCtx context)

Finds a policy based on a request's context. If more than one policy matches, then this either returns an error or a new policy wrapping the multiple policies (depending on which constructor was used to construct this instance).

Overrides:

findPolicy in class org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.finder.PolicyFinderModule

Parameters:

context - the representation of the request data

Returns:

the result of trying to find an applicable policy

init

public void init(org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.finder.PolicyFinder policyFinder)

Specified by:

init in class org.jboss.security.xacml.sunxacml.finder.PolicyFinderModule