Hive (Hive 7.9.0 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

BasicHive, SimpleCachingHive
```
public interface Hive
```
A Hive contains the security policy for the system, much like the Policy in JAAS does. However where the Policy only has a single instance for each virtual machine, multiple Hives are allowed per vm. Allowing for instance multiple web applications to each have there own security policies or share one. In effect making a hive a codebased policy. The HiveMind keeps a registry of hives based on keys, everyone with the right key can access that hive, this allows you to choose if multiple (different) webapps all share the same same hive or let each instance of an application have there own hive. The key (sometimes referred to as the "queen", to stick with wasp terminology ;)) can be any object. A good choice would be the application itself or if it is a web application the contextname could be used.

Author:

marrink

Method Summary

Methods
Modifier and Type	Method and Description
`boolean`	`containsPermission(Permission permission)` Checks if this hive contains exactly the permission.
`boolean`	`containsPrincipal(Principal principal)` Checks if this hive contains an exact match for this principal.
`Set<Permission>`	`getPermissions(Principal principal)` Returns a set of `Permission`s, contained within the principal.
`Set<Principal>`	`getPrincipals(Permission permission)` Returns a set of `Principal`s, each containing this permission.
`boolean`	`hasPermission(Subject subject, Permission permission)` Checks if the subject has the exact permission, or if the permission is implied by any of the subjects principals.

- Method Detail
  - containsPrincipal
```
boolean containsPrincipal(Principal principal)
```
    Checks if this hive contains an exact match for this principal.
    
    Parameters:
    principal -
    
    Returns:
    true if the hive contains the principal, false otherwise.
  - containsPermission
```
boolean containsPermission(Permission permission)
```
    Checks if this hive contains exactly the permission.
    
    Parameters:
    permission -
    
    Returns:
    true if the hive contains the permission.
  - hasPermission
```
boolean hasPermission(Subject subject,
                    Permission permission)
```
    Checks if the subject has the exact permission, or if the permission is implied by any of the subjects principals.
    
    Parameters:
    subject - the (optional) subject
    permission - the permission to check.
    
    Returns:
    true if the subject has or implies the permission, false otherwise.
  - getPrincipals
```
Set<Principal> getPrincipals(Permission permission)
```
    Returns a set of Principals, each containing this permission. Implementors must not allow modifications to the set change the internal state of the hive.
    
    Parameters:
    permission -
    
    Returns:
    set, never null
  - getPermissions
```
Set<Permission> getPermissions(Principal principal)
```
    Returns a set of Permissions, contained within the principal. Implementors must not allow modifications to the set change the internal state of the hive.
    
    Parameters:
    principal -
    
    Returns:
    set, never null

Interface Hive

Method Summary

Method Detail

containsPrincipal

containsPermission

hasPermission

getPrincipals

getPermissions