Permission (Java Platform SE 8 ) (original) (raw)

public interface Permission
This interface represents a permission, such as that used to grant a particular type of access to a resource.

• • Method Summary

  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method	Description
  boolean	equals(Object another)	Returns true if the object passed matches the permission represented in this interface.
  String	toString()	Prints a string representation of this permission.

• • Method Detail

     * #### equals  
     boolean equals([Object](../../../java/lang/Object.html "class in java.lang") another)  
     Returns true if the object passed matches the permission represented in this interface.  
     Overrides:  
     `[equals](../../../java/lang/Object.html#equals-java.lang.Object-)` in class `[Object](../../../java/lang/Object.html "class in java.lang")`  
     Parameters:  
     `another` \- the Permission object to compare with.  
     Returns:  
     true if the Permission objects are equal, false otherwise  
     See Also:  
     [Object.hashCode()](../../../java/lang/Object.html#hashCode--), [HashMap](../../../java/util/HashMap.html "class in java.util")  
     * #### toString  
     [String](../../../java/lang/String.html "class in java.lang") toString()  
     Prints a string representation of this permission.  
     Overrides:  
     `[toString](../../../java/lang/Object.html#toString--)` in class `[Object](../../../java/lang/Object.html "class in java.lang")`  
     Returns:  
     the string representation of the permission.

Submit a bug or feature
For further API reference and developer documentation, see Java SE Documentation. That documentation contains more detailed, developer-targeted descriptions, with conceptual overviews, definitions of terms, workarounds, and working code examples.
Copyright © 1993, 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Also see the documentation redistribution policy.