org.springframework.security.util
Class AuthorityUtils

java.lang.Object
  org.springframework.security.util.AuthorityUtils

public abstract class AuthorityUtils
extends Object

Version:

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Author:

Luke Taylor

Field Summary

static GrantedAuthority[]

NO_AUTHORITIES

Constructor Summary

AuthorityUtils()

Method Summary

static Set	authorityArrayToSet(GrantedAuthority[] authorities) Converts an array of GrantedAuthority objects to a Set.
static GrantedAuthority[]	commaSeparatedStringToAuthorityArray(String authorityString) Creates a array of GrantedAuthority objects from a comma-separated string representation (e.g.
static GrantedAuthority[]	stringArrayToAuthorityArray(String[] roles)
static boolean	userHasAuthority(String authority) Returns true if the current user has the specified authority.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

NO_AUTHORITIES

public static final GrantedAuthority[] NO_AUTHORITIES

Constructor Detail

AuthorityUtils

public AuthorityUtils()

Method Detail

userHasAuthority

public static boolean userHasAuthority(String authority)

Returns true if the current user has the specified authority.

Parameters:

authority - the authority to test for (e.g. "ROLE_A").

Returns:

true if a GrantedAuthority object with the same string representation as the supplied authority name exists in the current user's list of authorities. False otherwise, or if the user in not authenticated.

commaSeparatedStringToAuthorityArray

public static GrantedAuthority[] commaSeparatedStringToAuthorityArray(String authorityString)

Creates a array of GrantedAuthority objects from a comma-separated string representation (e.g. "ROLE_A, ROLE_B, ROLE_C").

Parameters:

authorityString - the comma-separated string

Returns:

the authorities created by tokenizing the string

authorityArrayToSet

public static Set authorityArrayToSet(GrantedAuthority[] authorities)

Converts an array of GrantedAuthority objects to a Set.

Returns:

a Set of the Strings obtained from each call to GrantedAuthority.getAuthority()

stringArrayToAuthorityArray

public static GrantedAuthority[] stringArrayToAuthorityArray(String[] roles)