PrivilegedAction JDK 1.6)

Description

public interface PrivilegedAction

A computation to be performed with privileges enabled.

A computation to be performed with privileges enabled. The computation is
performed by invoking AccessController.doPrivileged on the
PrivilegedAction object. This interface is used only for
computations that do not throw checked exceptions; computations that
throw checked exceptions must use PrivilegedExceptionAction
instead.

See also: AccessController AccessController.doPrivileged(PrivilegedAction) PrivilegedExceptionAction

Methods

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public T run ()

Performs the computation.

Performs the computation. This method will be called by
AccessController.doPrivileged after enabling privileges.
Returns: a class-dependent value that may represent the results of the computation. Each class that implements PrivilegedAction should document what (if anything) this value represents.
See Also: AccessController.doPrivileged(PrivilegedAction),

AccessController.doPrivileged(PrivilegedAction,
                                     AccessControlContext)