libjava/java/security/SecureClassLoader.java

   1 /* SecureClassLoader.java --- A Secure Class Loader
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  37
  38 package java.security;
  39
  40 /**
  41    A Secure Class Loader for loading classes with additional
  42    support for specifying code source and permissions when
  43    they are retrieved by the system policy handler.
  44
  45    @since JDK 1.2
  46
  47    @author Mark Benvenuto
  48  */
  49 public class SecureClassLoader extends ClassLoader
  50 {
  51   protected SecureClassLoader(ClassLoader parent)
  52   {
  53     super(parent);
  54     SecurityManager sm = System.getSecurityManager();
  55     if(sm != null)
  56       sm.checkCreateClassLoader();
  57   }
  58
  59   protected SecureClassLoader()
  60   {
  61     SecurityManager sm = System.getSecurityManager();
  62     if(sm != null)
  63       sm.checkCreateClassLoader();
  64   }
  65
  66   /**
  67      Creates a class using an array of bytes and a
  68      CodeSource.
  69
  70      @param name the name to give the class.  null if unknown.
  71      @param b the data representing the classfile, in classfile format.
  72      @param off the offset into the data where the classfile starts.
  73      @param len the length of the classfile data in the array.
  74      @param cs the CodeSource for the class or null when unknown.
  75
  76      @return the class that was defined and optional CodeSource.
  77
  78      @exception ClassFormatError if the byte array is not in proper classfile format.
  79    */
  80   protected final Class defineClass(String name, byte[] b, int off, int len,
  81                                     CodeSource cs)
  82   {
  83     // FIXME: Need to cache ProtectionDomains according to 1.3 docs.
  84     if (cs != null)
  85       {
  86         ProtectionDomain protectionDomain
  87                 = new ProtectionDomain(cs, getPermissions(cs));
  88         return super.defineClass(name, b, off, len, protectionDomain);
  89       }
  90     else
  91       return super.defineClass(name, b, off, len);
  92   }
  93
  94   /**
  95      Returns a PermissionCollection for the specified CodeSource.
  96      The default implementation invokes
  97      java.security.Policy.getPermissions.
  98
  99      This method is called by defineClass that takes a CodeSource
 100      arguement to build a proper ProtectionDomain for the class
 101      being defined.
 102
 103    */
 104   protected PermissionCollection getPermissions(CodeSource cs)
 105   {
 106     Policy policy = Policy.getPolicy();
 107     return policy.getPermissions(cs);
 108   }
 109 }