com.atlassian.jira.user
Interface ApplicationUser

All Superinterfaces:

Comparable<com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User>, Principal, com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User

All Known Implementing Classes:

DelegatingApplicationUser, MockUser

public interface ApplicationUser
extends com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User

Represents a person who uses JIRA. This differs from a User, which represents a user in a directory. An ApplicationUser encompasses all users with the same username (ignoring case) across all directories. This is intended to be used to allow for renaming of usernames in version 6.0.

Since:

v5.1.1

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object obj) Implementations must ensure equality based on getKey().
String	getKey() Returns the key which distinguishes the ApplicationUser as unique.
int	hashCode() Implementations must produce a hashcode based on getKey().

Methods inherited from interface com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User

compareTo, getDirectoryId, getDisplayName, getEmailAddress, isActive

Methods inherited from interface java.security.Principal

getName, toString

Method Detail

getKey

String getKey()

Returns the key which distinguishes the ApplicationUser as unique. The same key is shared by all users with the same username (ignoring case) across all directories.

Returns:

the key which distinguishes the ApplicationUser as unique

equals

boolean equals(Object obj)

Implementations must ensure equality based on getKey().

Specified by:

equals in interface Principal

Specified by:

equals in interface com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User

Overrides:

equals in class Object

Parameters:

obj - object to compare to.

Returns:

true if and only if the key matches.

hashCode

int hashCode()

Implementations must produce a hashcode based on getKey().

Specified by:

hashCode in interface Principal

Specified by:

hashCode in interface com.atlassian.crowd.embedded.api.User

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

Returns:

hashcode.