001/* ReflectPermission.java - named permission for reflaction 002 Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038package java.lang.reflect; 039 040import java.security.BasicPermission; 041 042/* Written using "Java Class Libraries", 2nd edition, ISBN 0-201-31002-3 043 * "The Java Language Specification", ISBN 0-201-63451-1 044 * plus online API docs for JDK 1.2 beta from http://www.javasoft.com. 045 */ 046 047/** 048 * This class implements permissions for reflection. This is a named 049 * permission, and the only defined name is suppressAccessChecks, which 050 * allows suppression of normal Java objects when using reflection. 051 * 052 * <table> 053 * <tr> 054 * <th>Permission Target Name</th> 055 * <th>What Permission Allows</th> 056 * <th>Risk of Allowing Permission</th> 057 * </tr> 058 * <tr> 059 * <td><code>suppressAccessChecks</code></td> 060 * <td>Ability to access fields, invoke methods, and construct objects 061 * via reflection, including non-public members in contexts where 062 * such access is not legal at compile-time.</td> 063 * <td>This is dangerous. It exposes possibly confidential information, 064 * and malicious code could interfere with the internals of the Virtual 065 * Machine by corrupting private data.</td> 066 * </tr> 067 * </table> 068 * 069 * @author Tom Tromey (tromey@redhat.com) 070 * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu) 071 * @since 1.2 072 * @status updated to 1.4 073 */ 074public final class ReflectPermission 075 extends BasicPermission 076{ 077 /** 078 * Compatible with JDK 1.2. 079 */ 080 private static final long serialVersionUID = 7412737110241507485L; 081 082 /** 083 * Construct a ReflectPermission with the given name. 084 * 085 * @param name The permission name 086 */ 087 public ReflectPermission(String name) 088 { 089 super(name); 090 } 091 092 /** 093 * Construct a ReflectPermission with the given name. 094 * 095 * @param name The permission name 096 * @param actions The actions; this is ignored and should be null 097 */ 098 public ReflectPermission(String name, String actions) 099 { 100 super(name, actions); 101 } 102}