org.springframework.security.core.authority.mapping
Interface Attributes2GrantedAuthoritiesMapper

All Known Implementing Classes:

MapBasedAttributes2GrantedAuthoritiesMapper, SimpleAttributes2GrantedAuthoritiesMapper

public interface Attributes2GrantedAuthoritiesMapper

Interface to be implemented by classes that can map a list of security attributes (such as roles or group names) to a list of Spring Security GrantedAuthorities.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Ruud Senden

Method Summary

List<GrantedAuthority>

getGrantedAuthorities(Collection<String> attributes) Implementations of this method should map the given list of attributes to a list of Spring Security GrantedAuthorities.

Method Detail

getGrantedAuthorities

List<GrantedAuthority> getGrantedAuthorities(Collection<String> attributes)

Implementations of this method should map the given list of attributes to a list of Spring Security GrantedAuthorities. There are no restrictions for the mapping process; a single attribute can be mapped to multiple Spring Security GrantedAuthorities, all attributes can be mapped to a single Spring Security GrantedAuthority, some attributes may not be mapped, etc.

Parameters:

attribute - the attributes to be mapped

Returns:

the list of mapped GrantedAuthorities