qtmobility/src/serviceframework/qabstractsecuritysession.cpp
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+#include "qabstractsecuritysession.h"
+
+QTM_BEGIN_NAMESPACE
+
+/*!
+    \class QAbstractSecuritySession
+    \ingroup servicefw
+    \brief The QAbstractSecuritySession class provides a generic mechanism to enable
+    permission checks for services.
+    
+    QAbstractSecuritySession describes the abstract interface that security/permission
+    engines must implement in order to provide capability related functionality.
+
+    A QAbstractSecuritySession encapsulates the service client's capabilities. QServiceManager
+    can match those capabilites with the capabilites required by a particular service. 
+    Service capabilites are declared via the services XML description. 
+
+    The use of a security session is not mandated by the service manager. If the client
+    is passing a security session object QServiceManager ensures that the permissions
+    are checked before the requested service is loaded and forwards the session to the 
+    service in case the service intends to implement additional checks. If no security 
+    session is passed to QServiceManager capability checks are not performed. Note that
+    the security session is no substitute for platform security such as control over
+    a processes ability to load arbitrary plug-ins.
+
+    Since the service loader controls whether a security session is passed to the
+    QServiceManager instance it is assumed that the calling context can be trusted. Possible
+    use cases for a security session could be arbitrary Javascript applications which run
+    within a trusted browser environment. The QAbstractSecuritySession interface would allow
+    the browser to provide access to platform services while at the same time being able to
+    ensure that certain Javascript application (depending on e.g their context, URL or signatures)
+    can not access more sensitive system services.
+
+    Framework clients with purely native code bases are likely to never have any security sessions.
+
+    \sa QServiceManager, QServicePluginInterface
+*/
+
+/*!
+    Constrcuts an abstract item model with the given \a parent.
+*/
+QAbstractSecuritySession::QAbstractSecuritySession(QObject* parent)
+    : QObject(parent)
+{
+}
+
+/*!
+    Destroys the abstract security session.
+*/
+QAbstractSecuritySession::~QAbstractSecuritySession()
+{
+}
+
+/*! 
+    \fn bool QAbstractSecuritySession::isAllowed(const QStringList& capabilities) = 0;
+
+    Returns true if the security session has sufficient rights to access the required
+    service \a capabilities. 
+*/
+
+#include "moc_qabstractsecuritysession.cpp"
+
+QTM_END_NAMESPACE