AuthorizeAction Struts 1.3)

Methods

public boolean execute (ActionContext actionCtx) throws Exception [Inherited From AbstractAuthorizeAction] [Specified in ActionCommandBase]

Determine whether the requested action is authorized for the current user.

Determine whether the requested action is authorized for the current user. If not, abort chain processing and perferably, return an error message of some kind.

Returns: false if the user is authorized for the selected action, else true to abort processing.
Parameters:
- actionCtx - The Context for the current request
Throws:
- UnauthorizedActionException - if authorization fails or if an error is encountered in the course of performing the authorization.

protected String getErrorMessage (ActionContext context, ActionConfig actionConfig) [Specified in AbstractAuthorizeAction]

protected boolean isAuthorizationRequired (ActionConfig actionConfig) [Inherited From AbstractAuthorizeAction]

Must authorization rules be consulted? The base implementation returns true if the given ActionConfig has one or more roles defined.

Returns: true if the isAuthorized method should be consulted.
Parameters:
- actionConfig - the current ActionConfig object

protected boolean isAuthorized (ActionContext context, String roles, ActionConfig mapping) throws Exception [Specified in AbstractAuthorizeAction]