Class Permissions

java.lang.Object

java.security.PermissionCollection

java.security.Permissions

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public final class Permissions
extends PermissionCollection
implements Serializable

This class represents a heterogeneous collection of permissions. That is, it contains different types of Permission objects, organized into PermissionCollection objects. For example, if any java.io.FilePermission objects are added to an instance of this class, they are all stored in a single PermissionCollection. It is the PermissionCollection returned by a call to the newPermissionCollection method in the FilePermission class. Similarly, any java.lang.RuntimePermission objects are stored in the PermissionCollection returned by a call to the newPermissionCollection method in the RuntimePermission class. Thus, this class represents a collection of PermissionCollection objects.

When the add method is called to add a Permission, the Permission is stored in the appropriate PermissionCollection. If no such collection exists yet, the Permission object's class is determined and the newPermissionCollection method is called on that class to create the PermissionCollection and add it to the Permissions object. If newPermissionCollection returns null, then a default PermissionCollection that uses a hashtable will be created and used. Each hashtable entry stores a Permission object as both the key and the value.

Enumerations returned via the elements method are not fail-fast. Modifications to a collection should not be performed while enumerating over that collection.

Since:

1.2

See Also:

• Permission
• PermissionCollection
• AllPermission

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
Permissions()	Creates a new Permissions object containing no PermissionCollection objects.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	add(Permission permission)	Adds a Permission object to the PermissionCollection for the class the permission belongs to.
Enumeration<Permission>	elements()	Returns an enumeration of all the Permission objects in all the PermissionCollection objects in this Permissions object.
boolean	implies(Permission permission)	Checks to see if this object's PermissionCollection for permissions of the specified permission's class implies the permissions expressed in the permission object.

Methods declared in class PermissionCollection

elementsAsStream, isReadOnly, setReadOnly, toString

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Stream<Permission>	elementsAsStream()	Returns a stream of all the Permission objects in the collection.
boolean	isReadOnly()	Returns true if this PermissionCollection object is marked as readonly.
void	setReadOnly()	Marks this PermissionCollection object as "readonly".
String	toString()	Returns a string describing this PermissionCollection object, providing information about all the permissions it contains.

Methods declared in class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected Object	clone()	Creates and returns a copy of this object.
boolean	equals(Object obj)	Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.
protected void	finalize()	Deprecated, for removal: This API element is subject to removal in a future version. Finalization is deprecated and subject to removal in a future release.
final Class<?>	getClass()	Returns the runtime class of this Object.
int	hashCode()	Returns a hash code value for this object.
final void	notify()	Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on this object's monitor.
final void	notifyAll()	Wakes up all threads that are waiting on this object's monitor.
final void	wait()	Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted.
final void	wait(long timeoutMillis)	Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed.
final void	wait(long timeoutMillis, int nanos)	Causes the current thread to wait until it is awakened, typically by being notified or interrupted, or until a certain amount of real time has elapsed.

Constructor Details

Permissions

public Permissions()

Creates a new Permissions object containing no PermissionCollection objects.

Method Details

add

public void add(Permission permission)

Adds a Permission object to the PermissionCollection for the class the permission belongs to. For example, if permission is a FilePermission, it is added to the FilePermissionCollection stored in this Permissions object. This method creates a new PermissionCollection object (and adds the permission to it) if an appropriate collection does not yet exist.

Specified by:

add in class PermissionCollection

Parameters:

permission - the Permission object to add.

Throws:

SecurityException - if this Permissions object is marked as readonly.

See Also:

• PermissionCollection.isReadOnly()

implies

public boolean implies(Permission permission)

Checks to see if this object's PermissionCollection for permissions of the specified permission's class implies the permissions expressed in the permission object. Returns true if the combination of permissions in the appropriate PermissionCollection (e.g., a FilePermissionCollection for a FilePermission) together imply the specified permission.

For example, suppose there is a FilePermissionCollection in this Permissions object, and it contains one FilePermission that specifies "read" access for all files in all subdirectories of the "/tmp" directory, and another FilePermission that specifies "write" access for all files in the "/tmp/scratch/foo" directory. Then if the implies method is called with a permission specifying both "read" and "write" access to files in the "/tmp/scratch/foo" directory, true is returned.

Additionally, if this PermissionCollection contains the AllPermission, this method will always return true.

Specified by:

implies in class PermissionCollection

Parameters:

permission - the Permission object to check.

Returns:

true if "permission" is implied by the permissions in the PermissionCollection it belongs to, false if not.

elements

public Enumeration<Permission> elements()

Returns an enumeration of all the Permission objects in all the PermissionCollection objects in this Permissions object.

Specified by:

elements in class PermissionCollection

Returns:

an enumeration of all the Permission objects.

See Also:

• PermissionCollection.elementsAsStream()