org.mmbase.security.implementation.cloudcontext
Class User

java.lang.Object
  org.mmbase.security.UserContext
      org.mmbase.security.implementation.cloudcontext.User

All Implemented Interfaces:

MMBaseObserver

Direct Known Subclasses:

Authenticate.LocalAdmin

public class User

extends UserContext

implements MMBaseObserver

Implementation of UserContext (the security presentation of a User). Most implementation is delegated to the Users builder.

Version:

$Id: User.java,v 1.11 2004/01/19 17:27:24 michiel Exp $

Author:

Eduard Witteveen, Pierre van Rooden, Michiel Meeuwissen

See Also:

Users

Field Summary

protected MMObjectNode

node

Method Summary

java.util.SortedSet	getGroups()
java.lang.String	getIdentifier() Gets the unique identifier for this user.
MMObjectNode	getNode() An MMObjectNode (of type 'mmbaseusers') is associated with this User object.
java.lang.String	getOwnerField() Gets the owner field value of new objects created by this user.
Rank	getRank() Gets the rank of this user.
boolean	nodeLocalChanged(java.lang.String machine, java.lang.String number, java.lang.String builder, java.lang.String ctype) Called when a local node is changed.
boolean	nodeRemoteChanged(java.lang.String machine, java.lang.String number, java.lang.String builder, java.lang.String ctype) Called when a remote node is changed.

Methods inherited from class org.mmbase.security.UserContext

toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

node

protected MMObjectNode node

Method Detail

getIdentifier

public java.lang.String getIdentifier()

Description copied from class: UserContext

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

Overrides:

getIdentifier in class UserContext

Returns:

A unique identifier for this user.

getRank

public Rank getRank()
             throws SecurityException

Description copied from class: UserContext

Gets the rank of this user.

Overrides:

getRank in class UserContext

Returns:

the user rank

Throws:

SecurityException

getOwnerField

public java.lang.String getOwnerField()

Description copied from class: UserContext

Gets the owner field value of new objects created by this user. The default implementation returns the user's identifier. This can be changed if the authorization implementation does not attribute rights to users directly ('context' implementations).

Overrides:

getOwnerField in class UserContext

Returns:

A possible value for the owner field

getGroups

public java.util.SortedSet getGroups()

getNode

public MMObjectNode getNode()

An MMObjectNode (of type 'mmbaseusers') is associated with this User object. This function returns it.

nodeRemoteChanged

public boolean nodeRemoteChanged(java.lang.String machine,
                                 java.lang.String number,
                                 java.lang.String builder,
                                 java.lang.String ctype)

Description copied from interface: MMBaseObserver

Called when a remote node is changed.

Specified by:

nodeRemoteChanged in interface MMBaseObserver

Parameters:

machine - Name of the machine that changed the node.

number - Number of the changed node as a String

builder - Type of the changed node

ctype - command type, 'c'=changed, 'd'=deleted', 'r'=relations changed, 'n'=new

Returns:

always true

nodeLocalChanged

public boolean nodeLocalChanged(java.lang.String machine,
                                java.lang.String number,
                                java.lang.String builder,
                                java.lang.String ctype)

Description copied from interface: MMBaseObserver

Called when a local node is changed.

Specified by:

nodeLocalChanged in interface MMBaseObserver

Parameters:

machine - Name of the machine that changed the node.

number - Number of the changed node as a String

builder - Type of the changed node

ctype - command type, 'c'=changed, 'd'=deleted', 'r'=relations changed, 'n'=new

Returns:

always true