edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.ifaces

Interface RequiresActions

public interface RequiresActions

Interface to objects that provide a list of Actions that are required for the object to be used. This is intended to provide a way to setup DataGetter objects to be used with the FreemarkerHttpServlet.requiredActions() method.

Author:

bdc34

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AuthorizationRequest	requiredActions(VitroRequest vreq) Returns Actions that are required to be authorized for the object to be used.

Method Detail

requiredActions

AuthorizationRequest requiredActions(VitroRequest vreq)

Returns Actions that are required to be authorized for the object to be used. The code that is calling this method could use methods from PolicyHelper to check if the request has authorization to do these Actions. The code calling this method would then have the ability to deny the action if it is not authorized.

Parameters:

vreq - Vitro request

Returns:

Should not be null. Return Actions.AUTHORIZED if no authorization is required to do use the object.