org.mmbase.security
Class Configurable

java.lang.Object
  org.mmbase.security.Configurable

Direct Known Subclasses:

Authentication, Authorization

public abstract class Configurable

extends java.lang.Object

Both Authorization and Authentication are configurable. This class provides the shared functionality for that.

Since:

MMBase-1.7

Version:

$Id: Configurable.java,v 1.7 2004/03/26 15:48:26 michiel Exp $

Author:

Eduard Witteveen, Michiel Meeuwissen

Field Summary

protected java.io.File	configFile This specific security configuration file.
protected FileWatcher	fileWatcher This filewatcher checks the configuration file for changes.
protected MMBaseCop	manager The SecurityManager, which created this instance

Constructor Summary

Configurable()

Method Summary

protected abstract void	load() This method should be overrided by an extending class.
void	load(MMBaseCop manager, FileWatcher fileWatcher, java.lang.String configPath) The method which initialized an instance of this class.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

manager

protected MMBaseCop manager

The SecurityManager, which created this instance

configFile

protected java.io.File configFile

This specific security configuration file. The file is absolute. Might be null if the implementation does not have its own configuruation file.

fileWatcher

protected FileWatcher fileWatcher

This filewatcher checks the configuration file for changes.

Constructor Detail

Configurable

public Configurable()

Method Detail

load

public final void load(MMBaseCop manager,
                       FileWatcher fileWatcher,
                       java.lang.String configPath)

The method which initialized an instance of this class. This method cannot be be overrided. This methods sets the member variables of this object and then calls the method load();

Parameters:

manager - The class that created this instance.

fileWatcher - checks the files

configPath - The url which contains the config information for the authorization (e.g. context/config.xml). Or null (if configured to be "")

See Also:

load(org.mmbase.security.MMBaseCop, org.mmbase.util.FileWatcher, java.lang.String)

load

protected abstract void load()

This method should be overrided by an extending class. It should further initialize the class. It can optionally retrieve settings from the general security configuration file (available as the 'configFile' member). Security implementations with complicated configuration would typically retrieve a path to their own configuration file only.