XACMLPolicy.java

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package org.constellation.xacml.api;

import java.util.List;


/**
 *  Represents a Policy or a PolicySet in the XACML World
 *  @author Anil.Saldhana@redhat.com
 *  @since  Jul 5, 2007 
 *  @version $Revision$
 */
public interface XACMLPolicy extends ContextMapOp {

    /**
     * Type identifying a PolicySet
     */
    int POLICYSET = 0;
    /**
     * Type identifying a Policy
     */
    int POLICY = 1;

    /**
     * Return a type (PolicySet or Policy)
     * @return int value representing type
     */
    int getType();

    /**
     * A PolicySet can contain policies within.
     * Setter to set the policies inside a policyset
     * @param policies a list of policies
     */
    void setEnclosingPolicies(List<XACMLPolicy> policies);

    /**
     * Return the enclosing policies for a PolicySet
     * @return a list of policies
     */
    List<XACMLPolicy> getEnclosingPolicies();
}