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Interface java.security.acl.Group
- public interface Group
- extends Principal
This interface is used to represent a group of principals. (A principal
represents an entity such as an individual user or a company).
Note that Group extends Principal. Thus, either a Principal or a Group can
be passed as an argument to methods containing a Principal parameter. For
example, you can add either a Principal or a Group to a Group object by
calling the object's addMember
method, passing it the
Principal or Group.
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addMember(Principal)
- Adds the specified member to the group.
-
isMember(Principal)
- Returns true if the passed principal is a member of the group.
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members()
- Returns an enumeration of the members in the group.
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removeMember(Principal)
- Removes the specified member from the group.
addMember
public abstract boolean addMember(Principal user)
- Adds the specified member to the group.
- Parameters:
- user - the principal to add to this group.
- Returns:
- true if the member was successfully added,
false if the principal was already a member.
removeMember
public abstract boolean removeMember(Principal user)
- Removes the specified member from the group.
- Parameters:
- user - the principal to remove from this group.
- Returns:
- true if the principal was removed, or
false if the principal was not a member.
isMember
public abstract boolean isMember(Principal member)
- Returns true if the passed principal is a member of the group.
This method does a recursive search, so if a principal belongs to a
group which is a member of this group, true is returned.
- Parameters:
- member - the principal whose membership is to be checked.
- Returns:
- true if the principal is a member of this group,
false otherwise.
members
public abstract Enumeration members()
- Returns an enumeration of the members in the group.
The returned objects can be instances of either Principal
or Group (which is a subclass of Principal).
- Returns:
- an enumeration of the group members.
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