Acl.checkPermission

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Syntax

public abstract boolean checkPermission( Principal principal, Permission permission )

Parameters

principal: the principal, assumed to be a valid authenticated Principal.
permission: the permission to be checked for.

Returns

true if the principal has the specified permission, false otherwise.

Description

Checks whether or not the specified principal has the specified permission. If it does, true is returned, otherwise false is returned. More specifically, this method checks whether the passed permission is a member of the allowed permission set of the specified principal. The allowed permission set is determined by the same algorithm as is used by the getPermissions method.