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/**
* This interface encapsulates a single GSS-API principal entity. The
* application obtains an implementation of this interface
* through one of the <code>createName</code> methods that exist in the {@link
* GSSManager GSSManager} class. Conceptually a GSSName contains many
* representations of the entity or many primitive name elements, one for
* each supported underlying mechanism. In GSS terminology, a GSSName that
* contains an element from just one mechanism is called a Mechanism Name
* (MN)<p>
*
* Since different authentication mechanisms may employ different
* namespaces for identifying their principals, GSS-API's naming support is
* necessarily complex in multi-mechanism environments (or even in some
* single-mechanism environments where the underlying mechanism supports
* multiple namespaces). Different name formats and their definitions are
* identified with {@link Oid Oid's} and some standard types
* are defind in this interface. The format of the names can be derived
* based on the unique <code>Oid</code> of its name type.<p>
*
* Included below are code examples utilizing the <code>GSSName</code> interface.
* The code below creates a <code>GSSName</code>, converts it to an MN, performs a
* comparison, obtains a printable representation of the name, exports it
* to a byte array and then re-imports to obtain a
* new <code>GSSName</code>.<p>
* <pre>
* GSSManager manager = GSSManager.getInstance();
*
* // create a host based service name
* GSSName name = manager.createName("service@host",
* GSSName.NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE);
*
* Oid krb5 = new Oid("1.2.840.113554.1.2.2");
*
* GSSName mechName = name.canonicalize(krb5);
*
* // the above two steps are equivalent to the following
* GSSName mechName = manager.createName("service@host",
* GSSName.NT_HOSTBASED_SERVICE, krb5);
*
* // perform name comparison
* if (name.equals(mechName))
* print("Names are equals.");
*
* // obtain textual representation of name and its printable
* // name type
* print(mechName.toString() +
* mechName.getStringNameType().toString());
*
* // export and re-import the name
* byte [] exportName = mechName.export();
*
* // create a new name object from the exported buffer
* GSSName newName = manager.createName(exportName,
* GSSName.NT_EXPORT_NAME);
*
* </pre>
* @see #export()
* @see #equals(GSSName)
* @see GSSManager#createName(String, Oid)
* @see GSSManager#createName(String, Oid, Oid)
* @see GSSManager#createName(byte[], Oid)
*
* @author Mayank Upadhyay
* @since 1.4
*/
public interface GSSName {
/**
* Oid indicating a host-based service name form. It is used to
* represent services associated with host computers. This name form
* is constructed using two elements, "service" and "hostname", as
* follows: service@hostname.<p>
*
* It represents the following Oid value:<br>
* <code>{ iso(1) member-body(2) United
* States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2) generic(1) service_name(4)
* }</code>
*/
/**
* Name type to indicate a named user on a local system.<p>
* It represents the following Oid value:<br>
* <code>{ iso(1) member-body(2) United
* States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2) generic(1) user_name(1)
* }</code>
*/
/**
* Name type to indicate a numeric user identifier corresponding to a
* user on a local system. (e.g. Uid).<p>
*
* It represents the following Oid value:<br>
* <code>{ iso(1) member-body(2) United States(840) mit(113554)
* infosys(1) gssapi(2) generic(1) machine_uid_name(2) }</code>
*/
/**
* Name type to indicate a string of digits representing the numeric
* user identifier of a user on a local system.<p>
*
* It represents the following Oid value:<br>
* <code>{ iso(1) member-body(2) United
* States(840) mit(113554) infosys(1) gssapi(2) generic(1)
* string_uid_name(3) }</code>
*/
/**
* Name type for representing an anonymous entity.<p>
* It represents the following Oid value:<br>
* <code>{ 1(iso), 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet),
* 5(security), 6(nametypes), 3(gss-anonymous-name) }</code>
*/
/**
* Name type used to indicate an exported name produced by the export
* method.<p>
*
* It represents the following Oid value:<br> <code>{ 1(iso),
* 3(org), 6(dod), 1(internet), 5(security), 6(nametypes),
* 4(gss-api-exported-name) }</code>
*/
/**
* Compares two <code>GSSName</code> objects to determine if they refer to the
* same entity.
*
* @param another the <code>GSSName</code> to compare this name with
* @return true if the two names contain at least one primitive element
* in common. If either of the names represents an anonymous entity, the
* method will return false.
*
* @throws GSSException when the names cannot be compared, containing the following
* major error codes:
* {@link GSSException#BAD_NAMETYPE GSSException.BAD_NAMETYPE},
* {@link GSSException#FAILURE GSSException.FAILURE}
*/
/**
* Compares this <code>GSSName</code> object to another Object that might be a
* <code>GSSName</code>. The behaviour is exactly the same as in {@link
* #equals(GSSName) equals} except that no GSSException is thrown;
* instead, false will be returned in the situation where an error
* occurs.
* @return true if the object to compare to is also a <code>GSSName</code> and the two
* names refer to the same entity.
* @param another the object to compare this name to
* @see #equals(GSSName)
*/
/**
* Returns a hashcode value for this GSSName.
*
* @return a hashCode value
*/
public int hashCode();
/**
* Creates a name that is canonicalized for some
* mechanism.
*
* @return a <code>GSSName</code> that contains just one primitive
* element representing this name in a canonicalized form for the desired
* mechanism.
* @param mech the oid for the mechanism for which the canonical form of
* the name is requested.
*
* @throws GSSException containing the following
* major error codes:
* {@link GSSException#BAD_MECH GSSException.BAD_MECH},
* {@link GSSException#BAD_NAMETYPE GSSException.BAD_NAMETYPE},
* {@link GSSException#BAD_NAME GSSException.BAD_NAME},
* {@link GSSException#FAILURE GSSException.FAILURE}
*/
/**
* Returns a canonical contiguous byte representation of a mechanism name
* (MN), suitable for direct, byte by byte comparison by authorization
* functions. If the name is not an MN, implementations may throw a
* GSSException with the NAME_NOT_MN status code. If an implementation
* chooses not to throw an exception, it should use some system specific
* default mechanism to canonicalize the name and then export
* it. Structurally, an exported name object consists of a header
* containing an OID identifying the mechanism that authenticated the
* name, and a trailer containing the name itself, where the syntax of
* the trailer is defined by the individual mechanism specification. The
* format of the header of the output buffer is specified in RFC 2743.<p>
*
* The exported name is useful when used in large access control lists
* where the overhead of creating a <code>GSSName</code> object on each
* name and invoking the equals method on each name from the ACL may be
* prohibitive.<p>
*
* Exported names may be re-imported by using the byte array factory
* method {@link GSSManager#createName(byte[], Oid)
* GSSManager.createName} and specifying the NT_EXPORT_NAME as the name
* type object identifier. The resulting <code>GSSName</code> name will
* also be a MN.<p>
* @return a byte[] containing the exported name. RFC 2743 defines the
* "Mechanism-Independent Exported Name Object Format" for these bytes.
*
* @throws GSSException containing the following
* major error codes:
* {@link GSSException#BAD_NAME GSSException.BAD_NAME},
* {@link GSSException#BAD_NAMETYPE GSSException.BAD_NAMETYPE},
* {@link GSSException#FAILURE GSSException.FAILURE}
*/
/**
* Returns a textual representation of the <code>GSSName</code> object. To retrieve
* the printed name format, which determines the syntax of the returned
* string, use the {@link #getStringNameType() getStringNameType}
* method.
*
* @return a String representing this name in printable form.
*/
/**
* Returns the name type of the printable
* representation of this name that can be obtained from the <code>
* toString</code> method.
*
* @return an Oid representing the namespace of the name returned
* from the toString method.
*
* @throws GSSException containing the following
* major error codes:
* {@link GSSException#FAILURE GSSException.FAILURE}
*/
/**
* Tests if this name object represents an anonymous entity.
*
* @return true if this is an anonymous name, false otherwise.
*/
public boolean isAnonymous();
/**
* Tests if this name object represents a Mechanism Name (MN). An MN is
* a GSSName the contains exactly one mechanism's primitive name
* element.
*
* @return true if this is an MN, false otherwise.
*/
public boolean isMN();
}