[Yanel-dev] Re: Access Control User Interface

[Michael Wechner]

Paloma Gomez wrote:

>>Paloma Gomez wrote:
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>>>>I think that the Identity is some kind of abstraction of the following
>>>>items:
>>>>- user
>>>>- machine
>>>>- ip range
>>>>- world
>>>>So maybe we could keep Identity.java as a super-class or an interface.
>>>>But I'm not sure which methods to put into Identity.java.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>Currently, Identity.java just holds a username and an array containing
>>>groups and provides getter methods for retrieving them.
>>>
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>>the identity is a container for
>>
>>user
>>machine/ip-range
>>world
>>group
>>
>>resp. identifiying a session so to speak. Instead of passing around all
>>the types mentioned above one
>>just has to pass around the identity which I think makes a lot of sense
>>;-)
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>>>If we want it to
>>>represent any kind of item, we should change the current implementation
>>>since it just considers users.
>>>
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>>>
>>which implementation?
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>org.wyona.security.core.api.Identity
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there also groups. I think only the IP resp. IP-ranges are missing.

I think what is missing is that the groups are currently not being set 
resp. read from the identities
"files".

Or do I misunderstand something?

Cheers

Michi

>Regards,
>Paloma
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>>Cheers
>>
>>Michi
>>
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