View Javadoc

1   /*
2    * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
3    * 
4    * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5    * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6    * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7    * 
8    *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9    * 
10   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12   * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13   * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14   * limitations under the License.
15   */
16  package javax.xml.rpc.server;
17  
18  import javax.servlet.ServletContext;
19  import javax.servlet.http.HttpSession;
20  import javax.xml.rpc.handler.MessageContext;
21  import java.security.Principal;
22  
23  /**
24   * The <code>ServletEndpointContext</code> provides an endpoint
25   * context maintained by the underlying servlet container based
26   * JAX-RPC runtime system. For service endpoints deployed on a
27   * servlet container based JAX-RPC runtime system, the context
28   * parameter in the <code>ServiceLifecycle.init</code> method is
29   * required to be of the Java type
30   * <code>javax.xml.rpc.server.ServletEndpointContext</code>.
31   * <p>
32   * A servlet container based JAX-RPC runtime system implements
33   * the <code>ServletEndpointContext</code> interface. The JAX-RPC
34   * runtime system is required to provide appropriate session,
35   * message context, servlet context and user principal information
36   * per method invocation on the endpoint class.
37   *
38   * @version 1.0
39   */
40  public interface ServletEndpointContext {
41  
42      /**
43       * The method <code>getMessageContext</code> returns the
44       * <code>MessageContext</code> targeted for this endpoint instance.
45       * This enables the service endpoint instance to acccess the
46       * <code>MessageContext</code> propagated by request
47       * <code>HandlerChain</code> (and its contained <code>Handler</code>
48       * instances) to the target endpoint instance and to share any
49       * SOAP message processing related context. The endpoint instance
50       * can access and manipulate the <code>MessageContext</code>
51       * and share the SOAP message processing related context with
52       * the response <code>HandlerChain</code>.
53       *
54       * @return MessageContext; If there is no associated
55       *     <code>MessageContext</code>, this method returns
56       *     <code>null</code>.
57       * @throws java.lang.IllegalStateException if this method is invoked outside a
58       * remote method implementation by a service endpoint instance.
59       */
60      public MessageContext getMessageContext();
61  
62      /**
63       * Returns a <code>java.security.Principal</code> instance that
64       * contains the name of the authenticated user for the current
65       * method invocation on the endpoint instance. This method returns
66       * <code>null</code> if there is no associated principal yet.
67       * The underlying JAX-RPC runtime system takes the responsibility
68       * of providing the appropriate authenticated principal for a
69       * remote method invocation on the service endpoint instance.
70       *
71       * @return A <code>java.security.Principal</code> for the
72       * authenticated principal associated with the current
73       * invocation on the servlet endpoint instance;
74       * Returns <code>null</code> if there no authenticated
75       * user associated with a method invocation.
76       */
77      public Principal getUserPrincipal();
78  
79      /**
80       * The <code>getHttpSession</code> method returns the current
81       * HTTP session (as a <code>javax.servlet.http.HTTPSession</code>).
82       * When invoked by the service endpoint within a remote method
83       * implementation, the <code>getHttpSession</code> returns the
84       * HTTP session associated currently with this method invocation.
85       * This method returns <code>null</code> if there is no HTTP
86       * session currently active and associated with this service
87       * endpoint. An endpoint class should not rely on an active
88       * HTTP session being always there; the underlying JAX-RPC
89       * runtime system is responsible for managing whether or not
90       * there is an active HTTP session.
91       * <p>
92       * The getHttpSession method throws <code>JAXRPCException</code>
93       * if invoked by an non HTTP bound endpoint.
94       *
95       * @return The HTTP session associated with the current
96       * invocation or <code>null</code> if there is no active session.
97       * @throws javax.xml.rpc.JAXRPCException - If this method invoked by a non-HTTP bound
98       *         endpoints.
99       */
100     public HttpSession getHttpSession();
101 
102     /**
103      * The method <code>getServletContext</code> returns the
104      * <code>ServletContex</code>t associated with the web
105      * application that contain this endpoint. According to
106      * the Servlet specification, There is one context per web
107      * application (installed as a WAR) per JVM . A servlet
108      * based service endpoint is deployed as part of a web
109      * application.
110      * 
111      * @return the current <code>ServletContext</code>
112      */
113     public ServletContext getServletContext();
114 
115     public boolean isUserInRole(java.lang.String s);
116 }