ReflectPermission JDK 1.6)

Description

publicfinal class ReflectPermission

The Permission class for reflective operations.

Permission Target Name	What the Permission Allows	Risks of Allowing this Permission
suppressAccessChecks	ability to access fields and invoke methods in a class. Note that this includes not only public, but protected and private fields and methods as well.	This is dangerous in that information (possibly confidential) and methods normally unavailable would be accessible to malicious code.

See also: Permission BasicPermission AccessibleObject Field.get(java.lang.Object) Field.set(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object) Method.invoke(java.lang.Object, java.lang.Object...) Constructor.newInstance(java.lang.Object...)

Constructors

public ReflectPermission (String name)

Constructs a ReflectPermission with the specified name.

Constructs a ReflectPermission with the specified name.
Parameters:
- name - the name of the ReflectPermission
Throws:
- NullPointerException - if name is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - if name is empty.

public ReflectPermission (String name, String actions)

Constructs a ReflectPermission with the specified name and actions.

Constructs a ReflectPermission with the specified name and actions.
The actions should be null; they are ignored.
Parameters:
- name - the name of the ReflectPermission
- actions - should be null
Throws:
- NullPointerException - if name is null.
- IllegalArgumentException - if name is empty.

Methods

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public void checkGuard (Object object) throws SecurityException [Inherited From Permission]

Implements the guard interface for a permission.

Implements the guard interface for a permission. The
SecurityManager.checkPermission method is called,
passing this permission object as the permission to check.
Returns silently if access is granted. Otherwise, throws
a SecurityException.
Parameters:
- object - the object being guarded (currently ignored).
Throws:
- SecurityException - if a security manager exists and its checkPermission method doesn't allow access.
See Also: Guard, GuardedObject, SecurityManager.checkPermission(java.security.Permission),

public boolean equals (Object obj) [Inherited From BasicPermission] [Specified in Permission]

Checks two BasicPermission objects for equality.

public String getActions () [Inherited From BasicPermission] [Specified in Permission]

Returns the canonical string representation of the actions, which currently is the empty string "", since there are no actions for a BasicPermission.

publicfinal String getName () [Inherited From Permission]

Returns the name of this Permission.

Returns the name of this Permission.
For example, in the case of a java.io.FilePermission,
the name will be a pathname.
Returns: the name of this Permission.

public int hashCode () [Inherited From BasicPermission] [Specified in Permission]

Returns the hash code value for this object.

Returns the hash code value for this object.
The hash code used is the hash code of the name, that is,
getName().hashCode(), where getName is
from the Permission superclass.
Returns: a hash code value for this object.

public boolean implies (Permission p) [Inherited From BasicPermission] [Specified in Permission]

Checks if the specified permission is "implied" by this object.

public PermissionCollection newPermissionCollection () [Inherited From BasicPermission]

Returns a new PermissionCollection object for storing BasicPermission objects.

public String toString () [Inherited From Permission]

Returns a string describing this Permission.