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org.osgi.service.permissionadmin

public Interface PermissionAdmin

Annotations
@ProviderType
Imports
org.osgi.annotation.versioning.ProviderType

The Permission Admin service allows management agents to manage the permissions of bundles. There is at most one Permission Admin service present in the OSGi environment.

Access to the Permission Admin service is protected by corresponding ServicePermission. In addition AdminPermission is required to actually set permissions.

Bundle permissions are managed using a permission table. A bundle's location serves as the key into this permission table. The value of a table entry is the set of permissions (of type PermissionInfo) granted to the bundle named by the given location. A bundle may have an entry in the permission table prior to being installed in the Framework.

The permissions specified in setDefaultPermissions are used as the default permissions which are granted to all bundles that do not have an entry in the permission table.

Any changes to a bundle's permissions in the permission table will take effect no later than when bundle's java.security.ProtectionDomain is next involved in a permission check, and will be made persistent.

Only permission classes on the system classpath or from an exported package are considered during a permission check. Additionally, only permission classes that are subclasses of java.security.Permission and define a 2-argument constructor that takes a name string and an actions string can be used.

Permissions implicitly granted by the Framework (for example, a bundle's permission to access its persistent storage area) cannot be changed, and are not reflected in the permissions returned by getPermissions and getDefaultPermissions.

Author
$Id: 886ffd919a52cd4a084e6169afb62416af1532b9 $

Method Summary

Modifier and TypeMethod and Description
public PermissionInfo[]

Returns:

The default permissions, or null if no default permissions are set.
getDefaultPermissions
()

Gets the default permissions.

public String[]

Returns:

The locations of bundles that have been assigned any permissions, or null if the permission table is empty.
getLocations
()

Returns the bundle locations that have permissions assigned to them, that is, bundle locations for which an entry exists in the permission table.

public PermissionInfo[]

Returns:

The permissions assigned to the bundle with the specified location, or null if that bundle has not been assigned any permissions.
getPermissions
(String
The location of the bundle whose permissions are to be returned.
location
)

Gets the permissions assigned to the bundle with the specified location.

public void
setDefaultPermissions(PermissionInfo[]
The default permissions, or null if the default permissions are to be removed from the permission table.
permissions
)

Sets the default permissions.

public void
setPermissions(String
The location of the bundle that will be assigned the permissions.
location
,
PermissionInfo[]
The permissions to be assigned, or null if the specified location is to be removed from the permission table.
permissions
)

Assigns the specified permissions to the bundle with the specified location.

Method Detail

getDefaultPermissionsback to summary
public PermissionInfo[] getDefaultPermissions()

Gets the default permissions.

These are the permissions granted to any bundle that does not have permissions assigned to its location.

Returns:PermissionInfo[]

The default permissions, or null if no default permissions are set.

getLocationsback to summary
public String[] getLocations()

Returns the bundle locations that have permissions assigned to them, that is, bundle locations for which an entry exists in the permission table.

Returns:String[]

The locations of bundles that have been assigned any permissions, or null if the permission table is empty.

getPermissionsback to summary
public PermissionInfo[] getPermissions(String location)

Gets the permissions assigned to the bundle with the specified location.

Parameters
location:String

The location of the bundle whose permissions are to be returned.

Returns:PermissionInfo[]

The permissions assigned to the bundle with the specified location, or null if that bundle has not been assigned any permissions.

setDefaultPermissionsback to summary
public void setDefaultPermissions(PermissionInfo[] permissions)

Sets the default permissions.

These are the permissions granted to any bundle that does not have permissions assigned to its location.

Parameters
permissions:PermissionInfo[]

The default permissions, or null if the default permissions are to be removed from the permission table.

Exceptions
SecurityException:
If the caller does not have AllPermission.
setPermissionsback to summary
public void setPermissions(String location, PermissionInfo[] permissions)

Assigns the specified permissions to the bundle with the specified location.

Parameters
location:String

The location of the bundle that will be assigned the permissions.

permissions:PermissionInfo[]

The permissions to be assigned, or null if the specified location is to be removed from the permission table.

Exceptions
SecurityException:
If the caller does not have AllPermission.