[JCR-3836] Allow to get an Authorizable of a given type

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.9
• Fix Version/s: 2.10.1
• Component/s: security
• Labels: security
• Assignee: Angela Schreiber
• Reporter: Timothee Maret
• Created: 04/Dec/14 13:59
• Updated: 08/Mar/16 15:53
• Resolved: 10/Apr/15 13:42

Description

As discussed in [0], API users would benefit from being able to get an Authorizable of a given type.

In order to allow this, we may add

<T> T getAuthorizable(@Nonnull String id, Class<T> authorizableClass) throws AuthorizableTypeException

[0] http://jackrabbit.markmail.org/message/iq7zpdxwh5laalfi?q=Adding+AuthorizableMissmatchException+to+jackrabbit+security+API

Issue Links

• is related to: OAK-4078 1.2 branch can't use latest stable Jackrabbit release
• is required by: OAK-2748 Oak Implementation for JCR-3836 and JCR-3837 (getting authorizable by type)

Sub-Tasks

• Add AuthorizableTypeException in user security API package: Closed