001package org.apache.fulcrum.security.model.dynamic.entity; 002 003/* 004 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 005 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 006 * distributed with this work for additional information 007 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 008 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 009 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 010 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 011 * 012 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 013 * 014 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 015 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 016 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 017 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 018 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 019 * under the License. 020 */ 021 022import java.util.Set; 023 024import org.apache.fulcrum.security.entity.User; 025import org.apache.fulcrum.security.model.basic.entity.BasicUser; 026 027/** 028 * Represents the "simple" model where permissions are related to roles, roles 029 * are related to groups and groups are related to users, all in many to many 030 * relationships. 031 * 032 * Users have a set of delegates and delegatee's. If user A has B in their 033 * delegates - B assumes A's groups,roles and permissions If user C has D in 034 * their delegatees - C assumes D's groups,roles and permissions 035 * 036 * @author <a href="mailto:epugh@upstate.com">Eric Pugh</a> 037 * @version $Id$ 038 */ 039public interface DynamicUser extends BasicUser 040{ 041 /** 042 * Get the set of delegatees for this user 043 * 044 * @param <T> 045 * @return Returns the delegatees. 046 */ 047 public <T extends User> Set<T> getDelegatees(); 048 049 /** 050 * Set the delegatees for this user 051 * 052 * @param delegatees 053 * The delegatees to set. 054 */ 055 public <T extends User> void setDelegatees(Set<T> delegatees); 056 057 /** 058 * Get the set of delegators for this user 059 * 060 * @param <T> 061 * @return Returns the delegators. 062 */ 063 public <T extends User> Set<T> getDelegators(); 064 065 /** 066 * Set the delegators for this user 067 * 068 * @param delegators 069 * The delegators to set. 070 */ 071 public <T extends User> void setDelegators(Set<T> delegators); 072}