io.milton.principal

Interface DiscretePrincipal

All Superinterfaces:

Principal, Resource

All Known Subinterfaces:

CalDavPrincipal, CardDavPrincipal, DirectoryGatewayCardDavPrincipal

public interface DiscretePrincipal
extends Principal, Resource

Indicates a principle which is identifiable by a URL, like a user or an application defined group

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface io.milton.principal.Principal

Principal.PrincipleId

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getPrincipalURL() A URL to identify this principle **and** the owner of this principal.

Methods inherited from interface io.milton.principal.Principal

getIdenitifer

Methods inherited from interface io.milton.resource.Resource

authenticate, authorise, checkRedirect, getModifiedDate, getName, getRealm, getUniqueId

Method Detail

getPrincipalURL

String getPrincipalURL()

A URL to identify this principle **and** the owner of this principal. Note the relationship between this and the AccessControlledResource.getPrincipalURL method which returns the principal that owns the resource. It is assumed that where a AccessControlledResource instance is also a DiscretePrincipal that the getPrincipalURL method will return the url of itself. In other words, we make the semantic decision that a principle owns itself.

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