Hi Jared, The WildcardPermission exists mainly as a convenience to people who don't want to build their own Permission implementation. If the methods you mention add more convenience, I think they could be good.
Please feel free to add a patch to Jira so we can try it out! Cheers, -- Les Hazlewood Founder, Katasoft, Inc. Application Security Products & Professional Apache Shiro Support and Training: http://www.katasoft.com
