Re: RFR: Re-enable support for non-Principal implementations of PrincipalComparator

2013-02-27 Thread Sean Mullan
On 02/27/2013 06:24 AM, Alan Bateman wrote: On 26/02/2013 18:36, Neil Richards wrote: Hi Sean, Thanks for your quick response. I admit, I hadn't spotted the description of the policy file syntax to which you point. (In my defence, it's a lot easier to overlook than the explicit wording that I

Re: RFR: Re-enable support for non-Principal implementations of PrincipalComparator

2013-02-27 Thread Alan Bateman
On 26/02/2013 18:36, Neil Richards wrote: Hi Sean, Thanks for your quick response. I admit, I hadn't spotted the description of the policy file syntax to which you point. (In my defence, it's a lot easier to overlook than the explicit wording that I found at the top of PrincipalComparator's Jav

Re: RFR: Re-enable support for non-Principal implementations of PrincipalComparator

2013-02-26 Thread Neil Richards
Hi Sean, Thanks for your quick response. I admit, I hadn't spotted the description of the policy file syntax to which you point. (In my defence, it's a lot easier to overlook than the explicit wording that I found at the top of PrincipalComparator's Javadoc). Just for info, are there other scena

Re: RFR: Re-enable support for non-Principal implementations of PrincipalComparator

2013-02-21 Thread Sean Mullan
Hi, On 02/21/2013 07:13 AM, Neil Richards wrote: Hi, The change made for the RFE 7019834 [1] [2] [3] is built upon the assertion that: "All PrincipalComparator implementations should already implement Principal". However, the Javadoc for com.sun.security.auth.PrincipalComparat

RFR: Re-enable support for non-Principal implementations of PrincipalComparator

2013-02-21 Thread Neil Richards
Hi, The change made for the RFE 7019834 [1] [2] [3] is built upon the assertion that: "All PrincipalComparator implementations should already implement Principal". However, the Javadoc for com.sun.security.auth.PrincipalComparator in the JAAS specification [4] states that: