com.ibm.xml.policy.xacl
Interface Hierarchy

All Known Implementing Classes:

HierarchyImpl

public interface Hierarchy

The interface to represent a hierarchical data structure such as groups and roles. You can implement an application-specific hierarchy by implementing this interface.

Author:

Satoshi Hada, IBM TRL

Method Summary

boolean

isAncestorOrEqual(java.lang.String ancestor_node, java.lang.String node) Check whether a given node is an ancestor of or equal to another given node.

Method Detail

isAncestorOrEqual

public boolean isAncestorOrEqual(java.lang.String ancestor_node,
                                 java.lang.String node)

Check whether a given node is an ancestor of or equal to another given node.

Parameters:

ancestor_node -

node -

Returns:

true if the ancestor_node is an ancestor of or equal to the node.