de.fzj.unicore.uas.security
Interface XacmlPDP

All Known Implementing Classes:

SimplePDP

public interface XacmlPDP

a policy decision point using XACML

Author:

schuller

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

XACML_CONFIGFILE

Method Summary

com.sun.xacml.ctx.ResponseCtx

evaluate(com.sun.xacml.ctx.RequestCtx request) Evaluates the given request and returns the Response that the PDP will hand back to the PEP.

Field Detail

XACML_CONFIGFILE

static final java.lang.String XACML_CONFIGFILE

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

evaluate

com.sun.xacml.ctx.ResponseCtx evaluate(com.sun.xacml.ctx.RequestCtx request)
                                       throws AuthorisationException

Evaluates the given request and returns the Response that the PDP will hand back to the PEP.

Parameters:

request - the Request

Returns:

the result of the evaluation

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if there is a problem accessing policies

AuthorisationException - if the Request is invalid or some other problem (e.g.IO error) occurs