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public interface

SecurityMetadataSource

org.springframework.security.access.SecurityMetadataSource
Known Indirect Subclasses

Class Overview

Implemented by classes that store and can identify the ConfigAttributes that applies to a given secure object invocation.

Summary

Public Methods
abstract Collection<ConfigAttribute> getAllConfigAttributes()
If available, returns all of the ConfigAttributes defined by the implementing class.
abstract Collection<ConfigAttribute> getAttributes(Object object)
Accesses the ConfigAttributes that apply to a given secure object.
abstract boolean supports(Class<?> clazz)
Indicates whether the SecurityMetadataSource implementation is able to provide ConfigAttributes for the indicated secure object type.

Public Methods

public abstract Collection<ConfigAttribute> getAllConfigAttributes ()

If available, returns all of the ConfigAttributes defined by the implementing class.

This is used by the AbstractSecurityInterceptor to perform startup time validation of each ConfigAttribute configured against it.

Returns
  • the ConfigAttributes or null if unsupported

public abstract Collection<ConfigAttribute> getAttributes (Object object)

Accesses the ConfigAttributes that apply to a given secure object.

Parameters
object the object being secured
Returns
  • the attributes that apply to the passed in secured object. Should return an empty collection if there are no applicable attributes.
Throws
IllegalArgumentException if the passed object is not of a type supported by the SecurityMetadataSource implementation

public abstract boolean supports (Class<?> clazz)

Indicates whether the SecurityMetadataSource implementation is able to provide ConfigAttributes for the indicated secure object type.

Parameters
clazz the class that is being queried
Returns
  • true if the implementation can process the indicated class