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Timothee Maret commented on JCR-3836: ------------------------------------- Thanks for your insight [~anchela]. although the methods have different semantics (they are no sugars) they could be added later as required. I have updated the pull request in https://github.com/tmaret/jackrabbit/commit/8ffc2f018aa2caecdb96f551d201570b37e19129 I have attached attached an svn compatible patch. > Allow to get an Authorizable of a given type > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: JCR-3836 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-3836 > Project: Jackrabbit Content Repository > Issue Type: Bug > Components: security > Affects Versions: 2.9 > Reporter: Timothee Maret > Assignee: angela > Labels: security > Fix For: 2.9 > > Attachments: JCR-3836.patch, JCR-3836.patch > > > As discussed in [0], API users would benefit from being able to get an > Authorizable of a given type. > In order to allow this, we may add > {code} > <T> T getAuthorizable(@Nonnull String id, Class<T> authorizableClass) throws > AuthorizableTypeException > {code} > [0] > http://jackrabbit.markmail.org/message/iq7zpdxwh5laalfi?q=Adding+AuthorizableMissmatchException+to+jackrabbit+security+API -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)