Class AccessControlContext

public final class AccessControlContext
extends Object

An AccessControlContext is used to make system resource access decisions based on the context it encapsulates.

More specifically, it encapsulates a context and has a single method, checkPermission, that is equivalent to the checkPermission method in the AccessController class, with one difference: The AccessControlContext checkPermission method makes access decisions based on the context it encapsulates, rather than that of the current execution thread.

Thus, the purpose of AccessControlContext is for those situations where a security check that should be made within a given context actually needs to be done from within a different context (for example, from within a worker thread).

An AccessControlContext is created by calling the AccessController.getContext method. The getContext method takes a "snapshot" of the current calling context, and places it in an AccessControlContext object, which it returns. A sample call is the following:

AccessControlContext acc = AccessController.getContext()

Code within a different context can subsequently call the checkPermission method on the previously-saved AccessControlContext object. A sample call is the following:

acc.checkPermission(permission)

Constructors

AccessControlContext

public AccessControlContext(ProtectionDomain[] context)

Create an AccessControlContext with the given array of ProtectionDomains. Context must not be null. Duplicate domains will be removed from the context.

Parameters:

context - the ProtectionDomains associated with this context. The non-duplicate domains are copied from the array. Subsequent changes to the array will not affect this AccessControlContext.

Throws:

NullPointerException - if context is null

AccessControlContext

public AccessControlContext(AccessControlContext acc,
                            DomainCombiner combiner)

Parameters:

acc - the AccessControlContext associated with the provided DomainCombiner.

combiner - the DomainCombiner to be associated with the provided AccessControlContext.

Throws:

NullPointerException - if the provided context is null.

SecurityException - if a security manager is installed and the caller does not have the "createAccessControlContext" SecurityPermission

Since:

1.3

Methods

getDomainCombiner

public DomainCombiner getDomainCombiner()

Returns:

the DomainCombiner associated with this AccessControlContext, or null if there is none.

Throws:

SecurityException - if a security manager is installed and the caller does not have the "getDomainCombiner" SecurityPermission

Since:

1.3

checkPermission

public void checkPermission(Permission perm)
                     throws AccessControlException

Parameters:

perm - the requested permission.

Throws:

AccessControlException - if the specified permission is not permitted, based on the current security policy and the context encapsulated by this object.

NullPointerException - if the permission to check for is null.

equals

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Overrides:

equals in class Object

Parameters:

obj - the object we are testing for equality with this object.

Returns:

true if obj is an AccessControlContext, and has the same set of ProtectionDomains as this context, false otherwise.

See Also:

Object.hashCode(), HashMap

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Returns the hash code value for this context. The hash code is computed by exclusive or-ing the hash code of all the protection domains in the context together.

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

Returns:

a hash code value for this context.

See Also:

Object.equals(java.lang.Object), System.identityHashCode(java.lang.Object)