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package org.springframework.security.acls.domain;
import java.util.List;
import org.springframework.security.acls.model.Permission;
/**
* Provides a simple mechanism to retrieve {@link Permission} instances from integer
* masks.
*
* @author Ben Alex
* @since 2.0.3
*
*/
public interface PermissionFactory {
/**
* Dynamically creates a <code>CumulativePermission</code> or
* <code>BasePermission</code> representing the active bits in the passed mask.
*
* @param mask to build
*
* @return a Permission representing the requested object
*/
Permission buildFromMask(int mask);
Permission buildFromName(String name);
List<Permission> buildFromNames(List<String> names);
}