javax.security.auth.message
Class MessagePolicy

java.lang.Object
  javax.security.auth.message.MessagePolicy

public class MessagePolicy
extends java.lang.Object

This class defines a message authentication policy.

A ClientAuthContext uses this class to communicate (at module initialization time) request and response message protection policies to its ClientAuthModule objects. A ServerAuthContext uses this class to communicate request and response message protection policies to its ServerAuthModule objects.

Version:

%I%, %G%

See Also:

ClientAuthContext, ServerAuthContext, ClientAuthModule, ServerAuthModule

Nested Class Summary

static interface	MessagePolicy.ProtectionPolicy This interface is used to represent message authentication policy.
static interface	MessagePolicy.Target This interface is used to represent and perform message targeting.
static class	MessagePolicy.TargetPolicy This class defines the message protection policies for specific Targets.

Constructor Summary

MessagePolicy(MessagePolicy.TargetPolicy[] targetPolicies, boolean mandatory)
Create a MessagePolicy instance with an array of target policies.

Method Summary

MessagePolicy.TargetPolicy[]	getTargetPolicies() Get the target policies that comprise the authentication policy.
boolean	isMandatory() Get the MessagePolicy modifier.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

MessagePolicy

public MessagePolicy(MessagePolicy.TargetPolicy[] targetPolicies,
                     boolean mandatory)

Create a MessagePolicy instance with an array of target policies.

Parameters:

targetPolicies - an array of target policies.

mandatory - A boolean value indicating whether the MessagePolicy is mandatory or optional.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the specified targetPolicies is null.

Method Detail

isMandatory

public boolean isMandatory()

Get the MessagePolicy modifier.

Returns:

A boolean indicating whether the MessagePolicy is optional(false) or required(true).

getTargetPolicies

public MessagePolicy.TargetPolicy[] getTargetPolicies()

Get the target policies that comprise the authentication policy.

Returns:

An array of target authentication policies, where each element describes an authentication policy and the parts of the message to which the authentication policy applies. This method returns null to indicate that no security operations should be performed on the messages to which the policy applies. This method never returns a zero-length array.

When this method returns an array of target policies, the order of elements in the array represents the order that the corresponding message transformations or validations described by the target policies are to be performed by the authentication module.