/*
 * @(#)PermissionCollection.java	1.30 03/01/23
 *
 * Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
 * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
 */

package java.security;

import java.util.*;

/**
 * Abstract class representing a collection of Permission objects.
 *
 * <p>With a PermissionCollection, you can:
 * <UL>
 * <LI> add a permission to the collection using the <code>add</code> method.
 * <LI> check to see if a particular permission is implied in the
 *      collection, using the <code>implies</code> method.
 * <LI> enumerate all the permissions, using the <code>elements</code> method.
 * </UL>
 * <P>
 *
 * <p>When it is desirable to group together a number of Permission objects
 * of the same type, the <code>newPermissionCollection</code> method on that
 * particular type of Permission object should first be called. The default
 * behavior (from the Permission class) is to simply return null.
 * Subclasses of class Permission override the method if they need to store
 * their permissions in a particular PermissionCollection object in order
 * to provide the correct semantics when the
 * <code>PermissionCollection.implies</code> method is called.
 * If a non-null value is returned, that PermissionCollection must be used.
 * If null is returned, then the caller of <code>newPermissionCollection</code>
 * is free to store permissions of the
 * given type in any PermissionCollection they choose
 * (one that uses a Hashtable, one that uses a Vector, etc).
 *
 * <p>The PermissionCollection returned by the
 * <code>Permission.newPermissionCollection</code>
 * method is a homogeneous collection, which stores only Permission objects
 * for a given Permission type.  A PermissionCollection may also be
 * heterogenous.  For example, Permissions is a PermissionCollection
 * subclass that represents a collection of PermissionCollections.
 * That is, its members are each a homogeneous PermissionCollection.
 * For example, a Permissions object might have a FilePermissionCollection
 * for all the FilePermission objects, a SocketPermissionCollection for all the
 * SocketPermission objects, and so on. Its <code>add</code> method adds a
 * permission to the appropriate collection.
 *
 * <p>Whenever a permission is added to a heterogeneous PermissionCollection
 * such as Permissions, and the PermissionCollection doesn't yet contain a
 * PermissionCollection of the specified permission's type, the
 * PermissionCollection should call
 * the <code>newPermissionCollection</code> method on the permission's class
 * to see if it requires a special PermissionCollection. If
 * <code>newPermissionCollection</code>
 * returns null, the PermissionCollection
 * is free to store the permission in any type of PermissionCollection it
 * desires (one using a Hastable, one using a Vector, etc.). For example,
 * the Permissions object uses a default PermissionCollection implementation
 * that stores the permission objects in a Hashtable.
 *
 * <p> Subclass implementations of PermissionCollection should assume
 * that they may be called simultaneously from multiple threads,
 * and therefore should be synchronized properly.  Furthermore,
 * Enumerations returned via the <code>elements</code> method are
 * not <em>fail-fast</em>.  Modifications to a collection should not be
 * performed while enumerating over that collection.
 *
 * @see Permission
 * @see Permissions
 *
 * @version 1.30 03/01/23
 *
 * @author Roland Schemers
 */

public abstract class PermissionCollection implements java.io.Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = -6727011328946861783L;

    // when set, add will throw an exception.
    private boolean readOnly;

    /**
     * Adds a permission object to the current collection of permission objects.
     *
     * @param permission the Permission object to add.
     *
     * @exception SecurityException -  if this PermissionCollection object
     *                                 has been marked readonly
     */
    public abstract void add(Permission permission);

    /**
     * Checks to see if the specified permission is implied by
     * the collection of Permission objects held in this PermissionCollection.
     *
     * @param permission the Permission object to compare.
     *
     * @return true if "permission" is implied by the  permissions in
     * the collection, false if not.
     */
    public abstract boolean implies(Permission permission);

    /**
     * Returns an enumeration of all the Permission objects in the collection.
     *
     * @return an enumeration of all the Permissions.
     */
    public abstract Enumeration elements();

    /**
     * Marks this PermissionCollection object as "readonly". After
     * a PermissionCollection object
     * is marked as readonly, no new Permission objects can be added to it
     * using <code>add</code>.
     */
    public void setReadOnly() {
	readOnly = true;
    }

    /**
     * Returns true if this PermissionCollection object is marked as readonly.
     * If it is readonly, no new Permission objects can be added to it
     * using <code>add</code>.
     *
     * <p>By default, the object is <i>not</i> readonly. It can be set to
     * readonly by a call to <code>setReadOnly</code>.
     *
     * @return true if this PermissionCollection object is marked as readonly,
     * false otherwise.
     */
    public boolean isReadOnly() {
	return readOnly;
    }

    /**
     * Returns a string describing this PermissionCollection object,
     * providing information about all the permissions it contains.
     * The format is:
     * <pre>
     * super.toString() (
     *   // enumerate all the Permission
     *   // objects and call toString() on them,
     *   // one per line..
     * )</pre>
     *
     * <code>super.toString</code> is a call to the <code>toString</code>
     * method of this
     * object's superclass, which is Object. The result is
     * this PermissionCollection's type name followed by this object's
     * hashcode, thus enabling clients to differentiate different
     * PermissionCollections object, even if they contain the same permissions.
     *
     * @return information about this PermissionCollection object,
     *         as described above.
     *
     */
    public String toString() {
	Enumeration enum = elements();
	StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
	sb.append(super.toString()+" (\n");
	while (enum.hasMoreElements()) {
	    try {
		sb.append(" ");
		sb.append(enum.nextElement().toString());
		sb.append("\n");
	    } catch (NoSuchElementException e){
		// ignore
	    }
	}
	sb.append(")\n");
	return sb.toString();
    }
}