issrg.pba.rbac.xmlpolicy
Class XMLPolicyParser.ActionPolicyNode

java.lang.Object
  issrg.pba.rbac.xmlpolicy.PolicyXMLNode
      issrg.pba.rbac.xmlpolicy.XMLPolicyParser.ActionPolicyNode

Enclosing class:

XMLPolicyParser

public class XMLPolicyParser.ActionPolicyNode
extends PolicyXMLNode

The class representing an ActionPolicy XML node. It holds a collection of action definitions, indexed by the action name. The definitions include parameter names and order, and the return type name.

Version:

1.0

Author:

A Otenko

See Also:

getActionDefinition(String)

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

ARGS_SEPARATORS This is the string, containing all the delimiter characters between arguments in NMTOKENS.

Fields inherited from class issrg.pba.rbac.xmlpolicy.PolicyXMLNode

attributes, children, name, nodeStr

Constructor Summary

XMLPolicyParser.ActionPolicyNode(org.xml.sax.Attributes attrs)
This is the default constructor used by the XMLPolicyParser.

Method Summary

void	construct() This method gets information from the child nodes and sticks them in the actions map.
java.lang.String[]	getActionDefinition(java.lang.String name) Returns the action definition as an array of strings.
java.lang.String[]	getApplyToTargets(java.lang.String name) Returns an array of String of the targets this action applies to.
java.lang.String	getNameFromID(java.lang.String actionID) Returns the Name attribute corresponding to a given ID attribute.

Methods inherited from class issrg.pba.rbac.xmlpolicy.PolicyXMLNode

addChild, addString, getAttributes, getChildren, getName, getString, toString, toXML, toXML

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

ARGS_SEPARATORS

public static final java.lang.String ARGS_SEPARATORS

This is the string, containing all the delimiter characters between arguments in NMTOKENS.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

XMLPolicyParser.ActionPolicyNode

public XMLPolicyParser.ActionPolicyNode(org.xml.sax.Attributes attrs)

This is the default constructor used by the XMLPolicyParser.

Method Detail

construct

public void construct()

This method gets information from the child nodes and sticks them in the actions map. The definitions are created as specified in getActionDefinition

Overrides:

construct in class PolicyXMLNode

getActionDefinition

public java.lang.String[] getActionDefinition(java.lang.String name)

Returns the action definition as an array of strings. Can be null, if no such method has been defined. The definition is as follows: the 0-th element is the return type name, or null, if no return type has been specified; the rest of the array elements name the parameters in the order they appeared in the XML. TODO: check for duplicate parameter identifiers, when constructing?

Parameters:

name - - the action name

Returns:

an array of String, where the 0-th element is the return type and the others are types of the action parameters

getApplyToTargets

public java.lang.String[] getApplyToTargets(java.lang.String name)

Returns an array of String of the targets this action applies to.

Parameters:

name - - the action name

Returns:

an array of String target names

getNameFromID

public java.lang.String getNameFromID(java.lang.String actionID)

Returns the Name attribute corresponding to a given ID attribute.

Parameters:

actionID - the ID attribute to get the Action Name for.

Returns:

the Action Name attribute, null if the actionID is not valid