[JCR-2649] Provide means to display the effective policies for a given set of principals

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0, 2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.2
• Component/s: jackrabbit-api, jackrabbit-core
• Assignee: Angela Schreiber
• Reporter: Angela Schreiber
• Created: 08/Jun/10 14:04
• Updated: 08/Nov/11 15:52
• Resolved: 15/Jun/10 17:02

Description

JSR 283 currently defines AccessControlManager#getEffectivePolicies(String nodePath) that would allow any Permission related UI to
display what policies contribute to a particular set of privileges. In addition the API defines AccessControlManager#getPrivileges(String nodePath) which
returns the privileges the editing session has at the specified path.

In order to have additional flexibility we started to add custom extensions (-> JackrabbitAccessControlManager) that allows e.g. to retrieve the privileges any set
of principals has hat a specified path. I would like to extend this and in addition provide a method that allows to retrieve the effective policies for a set of principals.
Currently this can only be achieved by relying on a specific access control model and making assumptions about it's implementation, which obviously isn't
the desired effect.
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