jspwiki-api/src/main/java/org/apache/wiki/api/core/Acl.java

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package org.apache.wiki.api.core;

import java.security.Permission;
import java.security.Principal;
import java.util.Enumeration;


/**
 * <p>
 * Defines an access control list (ACL) for wiki pages. An Access Control List is a data structure used to guard access to resources.
 * An ACL can be thought of as a data structure with multiple ACL entries. Each ACL entry, of interface type AclEntry, contains a set
 * of positive permissions associated with a particular principal. (A principal represents an entity such as an individual user or a 
 * group). The ACL Entries in each ACL observe the following rules:
 * </p>
 * <ul>
 * <li>Each principal can have at most one ACL entry; that is, multiple ACL entries are not allowed for any principal. Each entry
 * specifies the set of permissions that are to be granted</li>
 * <li>If there is no entry for a particular principal, then the principal is considered to have a null (empty) permission set</li>
 * </ul>
 * <p>
 * This interface is a highly stripped-down derivation of the java.security.acl.Acl interface. In particular, the notion of an Acl "owner"
 * has been eliminated, since JSPWiki pages do not have owners. An additional simplification compared to the standard Java package is that
 * negative permissions have been eliminated. Instead, JSPWiki assumes a "default-deny" security stance: principals are granted no 
 * permissions by default, and posesses only those that have been explicitly granted to them. And finally, the getPermissions() and 
 * checkPermission() methods have been eliminated due to the complexities associated with resolving Role principal membership.
 * </p>
 * @since 2.3
 */
public interface Acl {

    /**
     * Adds an ACL entry to this ACL. An entry associates a principal (e.g., an individual or a group) with a set of permissions.
     * Each principal can have at most one positive ACL entry, specifying permissions to be granted to the principal. If there is
     * already an ACL entry already in the ACL, false is returned.
     *
     * @param entry - the ACL entry to be added to this ACL
     * @return true on success, false if an entry of the same type (positive or negative) for the same principal is already present
     *         in this ACL
     */
    boolean addEntry( AclEntry entry );

    /**
     * Returns an enumeration of the entries in this ACL. Each element in the enumeration is of type AclEntry.
     *
     * @return an enumeration of the entries in this ACL.
     */
    Enumeration< AclEntry > aclEntries();

    /**
     * Returns <code>true</code>, if this Acl is empty.
     *
     * @return the result
     * @since 2.4.68
     */
    boolean isEmpty();

    /**
     * Returns all Principal objects assigned a given Permission in the access control list. The Princiapls returned are those that
     * have been granted either the supplied permission, or a permission implied by the supplied permission. Principals are not
     * "expanded" if they are a role or group.
     *
     * @param permission the permission to search for
     * @return an array of Principals posessing the permission
     */
    Principal[] findPrincipals( Permission permission );

    /**
     * Returns an AclEntry for a supplied Principal, or <code>null</code> if the Principal does not have a matching AclEntry.
     *
     * @param principal the principal to search for
     * @return the AclEntry associated with the principal, or <code>null</code>
     */
    AclEntry getAclEntry( Principal principal );

    /**
     * Removes an ACL entry from this ACL.
     *
     * @param entry the ACL entry to be removed from this ACL
     * @return true on success, false if the entry is not part of this ACL
     */
    boolean removeEntry( AclEntry entry );

}