org.acegisecurity.securechannel
Interface ChannelDecisionManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChannelDecisionManagerImpl

public interface ChannelDecisionManager

Decides whether a web channel provides sufficient security.

If necessary due to the nature of the redirection, implementations should store the original destination of the request in AbstractProcessingFilter.ACEGI_SECURITY_TARGET_URL_KEY.

Version:

$Id: ChannelDecisionManager.java,v 1.4 2005/11/17 00:55:50 benalex Exp $

Author:

Ben Alex

Method Summary

void	decide(FilterInvocation invocation, ConfigAttributeDefinition config) Decided whether the presented FilterInvocation provides the appropriate level of channel security based on the requested ConfigAttributeDefinition.
boolean	supports(ConfigAttribute attribute) Indicates whether this ChannelDecisionManager is able to process the passed ConfigAttribute.

Method Detail

decide

void decide(FilterInvocation invocation,
            ConfigAttributeDefinition config)
            throws IOException,
                   javax.servlet.ServletException

Decided whether the presented FilterInvocation provides the appropriate level of channel security based on the requested ConfigAttributeDefinition.

Throws:

IOException

javax.servlet.ServletException

supports

boolean supports(ConfigAttribute attribute)

Indicates whether this ChannelDecisionManager is able to process the passed ConfigAttribute.

This allows the ChannelProcessingFilter to check every configuration attribute can be consumed by the configured ChannelDecisionManager.

Parameters:

attribute - a configuration attribute that has been configured against the ChannelProcessingFilter

Returns:

true if this ChannelDecisionManager can support the passed configuration attribute