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com.sas.services.security
Class GetSubject

com.sas.services.security.GetSubject

public class GetSubject

This class has only one purpose: To copy a user's Subject across a remote interface. Since the JAAS Subject class is neither Remote nor Serializable, there needs to be a mechanism for getting it across a remote interface, so it can be used for a doAs() or doAsPrivileged() code section.

Since:

1.0

Constructor Summary

GetSubject()

Method Summary

static javax.security.auth.Subject

getSubject(UserContextInterface user) Get a security Subject from a UserContext.

Constructor Detail

GetSubject

public GetSubject()

Method Detail

getSubject

public static javax.security.auth.Subject getSubject(UserContextInterface user)
                                              throws ServiceException

Get a security Subject from a UserContext. A Subject is defined by its collections of principals, public credentials and private credentials. Get those items from the UserContext (hopefully, they'return all PFS versions of those objects), and create a new Subject in the current JVM.

Parameters:

user - The UserContext to create the new Subject from.

Returns:

The new Subject, created in the local JVM.

Throws:

ServiceException - in the event of service object failure.

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