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Added in API level 1
Summary:
Methods
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Principal
public
interface
Principal
| java.security.Principal |
 Known Indirect Subclasses
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This interface represents the abstract notion of a principal, which can be used to represent any entity, such as an individual, a corporation, and a login id.
See also:
Summary
Public methods | |
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abstract
boolean
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equals(Object another)
Compares this principal to the specified object. |
abstract
String
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getName()
Returns the name of this principal. |
abstract
int
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hashCode()
Returns a hashcode for this principal. |
abstract
String
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toString()
Returns a string representation of this principal. |
Public methods
equals
Added in API level 1
boolean equals (Object another)
Compares this principal to the specified object. Returns true if the object passed in matches the principal represented by the implementation of this interface.
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another |
Object:
principal to compare with. |
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boolean |
true if the principal passed in is the same as that encapsulated by this principal, and false otherwise. |
getName
Added in API level 1
String getName ()
Returns the name of this principal.
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String |
the name of this principal. |
hashCode
Added in API level 1
int hashCode ()
Returns a hashcode for this principal.
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int |
a hashcode for this principal. |
toString
Added in API level 1
String toString ()
Returns a string representation of this principal.
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String |
a string representation of this principal. |
Interfaces
Classes
- AccessControlContext
- AccessController
- AlgorithmParameterGenerator
- AlgorithmParameterGeneratorSpi
- AlgorithmParameters
- AlgorithmParametersSpi
- AllPermission
- AuthProvider
- BasicPermission
- CodeSigner
- CodeSource
- DigestInputStream
- DigestOutputStream
- GuardedObject
- Identity
- IdentityScope
- KeyFactory
- KeyFactorySpi
- KeyPair
- KeyPairGenerator
- KeyPairGeneratorSpi
- KeyRep
- KeyStore
- KeyStore.Builder
- KeyStore.CallbackHandlerProtection
- KeyStore.PasswordProtection
- KeyStore.PrivateKeyEntry
- KeyStore.SecretKeyEntry
- KeyStore.TrustedCertificateEntry
- KeyStoreSpi
- MessageDigest
- MessageDigestSpi
- Permission
- PermissionCollection
- Permissions
- Policy
- PolicySpi
- ProtectionDomain
- Provider
- Provider.Service
- SecureClassLoader
- SecureRandom
- SecureRandomSpi
- Security
- SecurityPermission
- Signature
- SignatureSpi
- SignedObject
- Signer
- Timestamp
- UnresolvedPermission
Enums
Exceptions
- AccessControlException
- DigestException
- GeneralSecurityException
- InvalidAlgorithmParameterException
- InvalidKeyException
- InvalidParameterException
- KeyException
- KeyManagementException
- KeyStoreException
- NoSuchAlgorithmException
- NoSuchProviderException
- PrivilegedActionException
- ProviderException
- SignatureException
- UnrecoverableEntryException
- UnrecoverableKeyException