org.mmbase.security
Class UserContext

java.lang.Object
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  +--org.mmbase.security.UserContext

Direct Known Subclasses:

ContextUserContext, NameContext

public class UserContext

extends java.lang.Object

This UserContext class provides a storage for the authentication and authorization, so that information can be shared. This class is NOT a container class for client related stuff, altrough this is possible.

Constructor Summary

UserContext()

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getIdentifier() Get the unique identifier for this user.
java.lang.String	getOwnerField() Get the identifier to be used as the owner field value of objects created by this user.
Rank	getRank() Get the rank of this user.
java.lang.String	toString() Get the string respresnetation of the user context.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

UserContext

public UserContext()

Method Detail

getIdentifier

public java.lang.String getIdentifier()

Get the unique identifier for this user. This should be unique for every different user on the system.

Returns:

a unique identifier for this user.

getOwnerField

public java.lang.String getOwnerField()

Get the identifier to be used as the owner field value of objects created by this user.

Returns:

an identifier for the owner field

getRank

public Rank getRank()
             throws SecurityException

Get the rank of this user.

Returns:

the user rank

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Get the string respresnetation of the user context.

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

a string describing the usercontext