User.java

package edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.authorization.users;

import edu.harvard.iq.dataverse.authorization.RoleAssignee;
import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * A user of the dataverse system. Intuitively a single real person in real
 * life, but some corner cases exist (e.g. {@link GuestUser}, who stands for
 * many people, or {@link PrivateUrlUser}, another virtual user).
 */
public interface User extends RoleAssignee, Serializable {

    public boolean isAuthenticated();

    // TODO remove this, should be handled in a more generic fashion,
    // e.g. getUserProvider and get the provider's URL from there. This
    // would allow Shib-based editing as well.
    public boolean isBuiltInUser();

    public boolean isSuperuser();

}