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SecureBPMN/src/com.sun.xacml/src/main/java/com/sun/xacml/PolicyTreeElement.java

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/*
* @(#)PolicyTreeElement.java
*
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package com.sun.xacml;
import com.sun.xacml.ctx.Result;
import com.sun.xacml.debug.Locatable;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.net.URI;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
/**
* This represents a single node in a policy tree. A node is either a policy
* set, a policy, or a rule. This interface is used to interact with these
* node types in a general way. Note that rules are leaf nodes in a policy
* tree as they never contain children.
*
* @since 1.1
* @author seth proctor
*/
public interface PolicyTreeElement extends Locatable
{
public static List<PolicyTreeElement> EMPTY_LIST = Collections.<PolicyTreeElement>emptyList();
/**
* Returns the <code>List</code> of <code>PolicyTreeElement</code> objects
* that are the children of this node. If this node has no children then
* this list is empty. The children are returned as a <code>List</code>
* instead of some unordered collection because in cases like combining
* or evaluation the order is often important.
*
* @return the non-null <code>List</code> of children of this node
*/
public List<PolicyTreeElement> getChildren();
/**
* Returns the given description of this element or null if
* there is no description
*
* @return the description or null
*/
public String getDescription();
/**
* Returns the id of this element
*
* @return the element's identifier
*/
public URI getId();
/**
* Returns the target for this element or null if there
* is no target
*
* @return the element's target
*/
public Target getTarget();
/**
* Given the input context sees whether or not the request matches this
* element's target. The rules for matching are different depending on
* the type of element being matched.
*
* @param context the representation of the request
*
* @return the result of trying to match this element and the request
*/
public MatchResult match(EvaluationCtx context);
/**
* Evaluates this element in the policy tree, and therefore all elements
* underneath this element. The rules for evaluation are different
* depending on the type of element being evaluated.
*
* @param context the representation of the request we're evaluating
*
* @return the result of the evaluation
*/
public Result evaluate(EvaluationCtx context);
/**
* Encodes this element into its XML representation and writes
* this encoding to the given <code>OutputStream</code> with no
* indentation.
*
* @param output a stream into which the XML-encoded data is written
* @param charsetName the character set to use in encoding of strings.
* This may be null in which case the platform
* default character set will be used.
*/
public void encode(OutputStream output, String charsetName)
throws UnsupportedEncodingException;
/**
* Encodes this element into its XML representation and writes
* this encoding to the given <code>OutputStream</code> with
* indentation.
*
* @param output a stream into which the XML-encoded data is written
* @param charsetName the character set to use in encoding of strings.
* This may be null in which case the platform default character set
* will be used.
* @param indenter an object that creates indentation strings
*/
public void encode(OutputStream output, String charsetName,
Indenter indenter)
throws UnsupportedEncodingException;
}