com.atlassian.seraph.auth
Interface RoleMapper

All Superinterfaces:

Initable

All Known Implementing Classes:

GroupRoleMapper, SimpleAbstractRoleMapper

public interface RoleMapper
extends Initable

Determines whether an authenticated user has a "role" (permission) within the system, and specifically, whether they have permission to log in to the system.

In applications using Seraph, role assignment is typically done by checking for membership of certain groups, eg:

• hasRole() implementation will map between group membership (eg. 'administrators' group) and roles (eg. 'delete_user', 'see_admin_pages').
• canLogin() implementation checks for membership of a global "users" group, thus allowing existing users' access to a site to be revoked by removal from the "users" group.

Method Summary

boolean	canLogin(Principal user, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)
boolean	hasRole(Principal user, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request, String role)

Methods inherited from interface com.atlassian.seraph.Initable

init

Method Detail

hasRole

boolean hasRole(Principal user,
                javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request,
                String role)

canLogin

boolean canLogin(Principal user,
                 javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest request)