Package org.springframework.security.core.authority.mapping

Strategies for mapping a list of attributes (such as roles or LDAP groups) to a list of GrantedAuthoritys.

Provides a layer of indirection between a security data repository and the logical authorities required within an application.

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Attributes2GrantedAuthoritiesMapper	Interface to be implemented by classes that can map a list of security attributes (such as roles or group names) to a collection of Spring Security GrantedAuthoritys.
GrantedAuthoritiesMapper	Mapping interface which can be injected into the authentication layer to convert the authorities loaded from storage into those which will be used in the Authentication object.
MappableAttributesRetriever	Interface to be implemented by classes that can retrieve a list of mappable security attribute strings (for example the list of all available J2EE roles in a web or EJB application).

Class Summary

Class	Description
MapBasedAttributes2GrantedAuthoritiesMapper	This class implements the Attributes2GrantedAuthoritiesMapper and MappableAttributesRetriever interfaces based on the supplied Map.
NullAuthoritiesMapper
SimpleAttributes2GrantedAuthoritiesMapper	This class implements the Attributes2GrantedAuthoritiesMapper interface by doing a one-to-one mapping from roles to Spring Security GrantedAuthorities.
SimpleAuthorityMapper	Simple one-to-one GrantedAuthoritiesMapper which allows for case conversion of the authority name and the addition of a string prefix (which defaults to ROLE_ ).
SimpleMappableAttributesRetriever	This class implements the MappableAttributesRetriever interface by just returning a list of mappable attributes as previously set using the corresponding setter method.