org.jboss.weld.security.spi

Interface SecurityServices

All Superinterfaces:

Service

All Known Implementing Classes:

NoopSecurityServices

public interface SecurityServices
extends Service

Responsible for accessing security related functionality the environment can provide. Required in a Java EE environment. SecurityServices is a per-deployment service.

Author:

pmuir, Jozef Hartinger

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Principal	getPrincipal() Obtain the Principal representing the current caller identity
default SecurityContext	getSecurityContext() Obtain the security context associated with the current thread.

Methods inherited from interface org.jboss.weld.bootstrap.api.Service

cleanup

Method Detail

getPrincipal

Principal getPrincipal()

Obtain the Principal representing the current caller identity

Returns:

the Principal representing the current caller identity

getSecurityContext

default SecurityContext getSecurityContext()

Obtain the security context associated with the current thread. This method is used by Weld to propagate the security context of the current thread to different threads. TODO: this method is temporarily default with noop fallback implementation to make migration easier. Make the implementation required later.

Returns:

the security context associated with the current thread