UserPrincipalLookupService

public abstract class UserPrincipalLookupService extends Object

An object to lookup user and group principals by name. A UserPrincipal represents an identity that may be used to determine access rights to objects in a file system. A GroupPrincipal represents a group identity. A UserPrincipalLookupService defines methods to lookup identities by name or group name (which are typically user or account names). Whether names and group names are case sensitive or not depends on the implementation. The exact definition of a group is implementation specific but typically a group represents an identity created for administrative purposes so as to determine the access rights for the members of the group. In particular it is implementation specific if the namespace for names and groups is the same or is distinct. To ensure consistent and correct behavior across platforms it is recommended that this API be used as if the namespaces are distinct. In other words, the lookupPrincipalByName should be used to lookup users, and lookupPrincipalByGroupName should be used to lookup groups.

Protected Constructor Summary

UserPrincipalLookupService()
Initializes a new instance of this class.

Public Method Summary

abstract GroupPrincipal
lookupPrincipalByGroupName(String group)
Lookup a group principal by group name.
abstract UserPrincipal
lookupPrincipalByName(String name)
Lookup a user principal by name.

Inherited Method Summary

Protected Constructors

protected UserPrincipalLookupService ()

Initializes a new instance of this class.

Public Methods

public abstract GroupPrincipal lookupPrincipalByGroupName (String group)

Lookup a group principal by group name.

Where an implementation does not support any notion of group then this method always throws UserPrincipalNotFoundException. Where the namespace for user accounts and groups is the same, then this method is identical to invoking lookupPrincipalByName.

Parameters
group the string representation of the group to lookup
Returns
  • a group principal
Throws
UserPrincipalNotFoundException the principal does not exist or is not a group
IOException if an I/O error occurs
SecurityException In the case of the default provider, and a security manager is installed, it checks RuntimePermission("lookupUserInformation")

public abstract UserPrincipal lookupPrincipalByName (String name)

Lookup a user principal by name.

Parameters
name the string representation of the user principal to lookup
Returns
  • a user principal
Throws
UserPrincipalNotFoundException the principal does not exist
IOException if an I/O error occurs
SecurityException In the case of the default provider, and a security manager is installed, it checks RuntimePermission("lookupUserInformation")