[ mx4j-Bugs-1116245 ] MBeanPermission implies is incorrect with wildcards

Bugs item #1116245, was opened at 2005-02-04 07:28
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jeremy Boynes (jboynes)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: MBeanPermission implies is incorrect with wildcards

Initial Comment:
MBeanPermission is too strict on interpreting wildcards
in ObjectNames

for example, ("a#b[c:d=e]").implies("*") should return
true according to the rules in the JavaDoc

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>Comment By: Jeremy Boynes (jboynes)
Date: 2005-02-04 09:21

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I'll confess I am also confused here. Most of the confusion
stems from a bug in MBeanPermission.toString() where

new MBeanPermission(null, null, null).toString() displays
"(javax.management.MBeanPermission * getAttribute)"

So, the actual failure here is that:
MBeanPermission perm1 = new MBeanPermission("a#b[c:d=e]",
"getAttribute");
MBeanPermission perm2 = new MBeanPermission(null, null,
null, "getAttribute");
assertTrue(perm1.implies(perm2));

fails

It looks to me that the 3-null constructor is creating the
wrong pattern. I will dig into that a bit more.

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Comment By: Eamonn McManus (emcmanus)
Date: 2005-02-04 08:25

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I am confused here. Are you saying that with:
  MBeanPermission p1 = new MBeanPermission("a#b[c:d=e]", "*");
  MBeanPermission p2 = new MBeanPermission("*", "*");
p1.implies(p2) should be true? The spec isn't supposed to
say that, and I don't understand how it can be read to. (I'd
certainly be interested in clarifications if this is not
already clear.)
On the other hand, p2.implies(p1) should be true.

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