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package org.apache.sentry.provider.common;

import java.util.Set;

import javax.annotation.concurrent.ThreadSafe;

import org.apache.sentry.core.common.ActiveRoleSet;
import org.apache.sentry.core.common.Authorizable;
import org.apache.sentry.core.common.exception.SentryConfigurationException;

import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;

/**
 * Interface for getting roles from a specific provider backend. Implementations
 * are expected to be thread safe after initialize() has
 * been called.
 */
@ThreadSafe
public interface ProviderBackend {

  /**
   * Set the privilege validators to be used on the backend. This is required
   * because the Backend must be created before the policy engine and only the
   * policy engine knows the validators. Ideally we could change but since
   * both the policy engine and backend are exposed via configuration properties
   * that would be backwards incompatible.
   * @param context
   */
  void initialize(ProviderBackendContext context);

  /**
   * Get the privileges from the backend for groups.
   */
  ImmutableSet<String> getPrivileges(Set<String> groups, ActiveRoleSet roleSet, Authorizable... authorizableHierarchy);

  /**
   * Get the privileges from the backend for users and groups.
   */
  ImmutableSet<String> getPrivileges(Set<String> groups, Set<String> users,
      ActiveRoleSet roleSet, Authorizable... authorizableHierarchy);

  /**
   * Get the roles associated with the groups from the backend.
   */
  ImmutableSet<String> getRoles(Set<String> groups, ActiveRoleSet roleSet);

  /**
   * If strictValidation is true then an error is thrown for warnings
   * as well as errors.
   *
   * @param strictValidation
   * @throws SentryConfigurationException
   */
  void validatePolicy(boolean strictValidation) throws SentryConfigurationException;

  void close();
}