com.atlassian.jira.issue.comments
Interface CommentPermissionManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultCommentPermissionManager

@PublicApi
public interface CommentPermissionManager

A unified way of checking whether a user can see a comment or not

Method Summary

boolean	hasBrowsePermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user, Comment comment) Return true if the user can see the comment.
boolean	hasDeleteAllPermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user, Issue issue) Returns true if the given User can delete all comments for the given Issue.
boolean	hasDeleteOwnPermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user, Issue issue) Returns true if the given User can delete her own comments in the given Issue.
boolean	hasEditAllPermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user, Issue issue) Returns true if user has permission to edit all comments in the given Issue.
boolean	hasEditOwnPermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user, Issue issue) Returns true if user has permission to edit her own comments in the given Issue.
boolean	hasEditPermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user, Comment comment) Determines whether the given user has permission to edit the given comment.
boolean	isUserCommentAuthor(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user, Comment comment) Returns true if the given user is the author of the given comment.

Method Detail

hasBrowsePermission

boolean hasBrowsePermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user,
                            Comment comment)

Return true if the user can see the comment. It does not check if the user has the permission to see the issue the comment is attached to however.

Parameters:

user - user

comment - comment

Returns:

true if permission is granted, false otherwise

hasEditPermission

boolean hasEditPermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user,
                          Comment comment)

Determines whether the given user has permission to edit the given comment. The user is granted permission if they have the Permissions.COMMENT_EDIT_ALL permission or the Permissions.COMMENT_EDIT_OWN permission in case the user is the author of the given comment.

NOTE: The permissions will be determined by the permission scheme associated to the project the comment is a part of and the entries for the above mentioned permissions.

NOTE: This method does not check whether the Issue the comment belongs to is in an editable workflow state.

Parameters:

user - user

comment - comment

Returns:

true if permission is granted, false otherwise

hasEditAllPermission

boolean hasEditAllPermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user,
                             Issue issue)

Returns true if user has permission to edit all comments in the given Issue.

NOTE: This method does not check whether the Issue the comment belongs to is in an editable workflow state.

Parameters:

user - User. A null value represents an anonymous User.

issue - Issue. Must not be null.

Returns:

true if user has permission to edit all comments in the given Issue.

hasEditOwnPermission

boolean hasEditOwnPermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user,
                             Issue issue)

Returns true if user has permission to edit her own comments in the given Issue.

NOTE: This method does not check whether the Issue the comment belongs to is in an editable workflow state.

Parameters:

user - User. A null value represents an anonymous User.

issue - Issue. Must not be null.

Returns:

true if user has permission to edit all comments in the given Issue.

hasDeleteAllPermission

boolean hasDeleteAllPermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user,
                               Issue issue)

Returns true if the given User can delete all comments for the given Issue.

NOTE: This method does not check whether the Issue the comment belongs to is in an editable workflow state.

Parameters:

user - User. A null value represents an anonymous User.

issue - Issue. Must not be null.

Returns:

true if user has permission to delete all comments in the given Issue.

hasDeleteOwnPermission

boolean hasDeleteOwnPermission(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user,
                               Issue issue)

Returns true if the given User can delete her own comments in the given Issue.

NOTE: This method does not check whether the Issue the comment belongs to is in an editable workflow state.

Parameters:

user - User. A null value represents an anonymous User.

issue - Issue. Must not be null.

Returns:

true if the given User can delete her own comments in the given Issue.

isUserCommentAuthor

boolean isUserCommentAuthor(com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User user,
                            Comment comment)

Returns true if the given user is the author of the given comment.

If the given Comment has a null author, this represents that it was created anonymously, and no-one is the author (returns false). If the given User is null, then this represents that the current user is anonymous, and the method will always return false.

Parameters:

user - The User. Can be null to represent current user is not logged in (anonymous).

comment - The Comment. Cannot be null.

Returns:

true if the given user is the author of the given comment.