Added in API level 1

Principal

interface Principal

java.security.Principal

Known Direct Subclasses Group, Identity, UserPrincipal, X500Principal Group This interface is used to represent a group of principals. Identity This class represents identities: real-world objects such as people, companies or organizations whose identities can be authenticated using their public keys. UserPrincipal A Principal representing an identity used to determine access rights to objects in a file system. X500Principal This class represents an X.

Known Indirect Subclasses GroupPrincipal, IdentityScope, Signer GroupPrincipal A UserPrincipal representing a group identity, used to determine access rights to objects in a file system. IdentityScope This class represents a scope for identities. Signer This class is used to represent an Identity that can also digitally sign data.

This interface represents the abstract notion of a principal, which can be used to represent any entity, such as an individual, a corporation, and a login id.

Summary

Public methods
abstract String!	getName() Returns the name of this principal.
open Boolean	implies(subject: Subject!) Returns true if the specified subject is implied by this principal.

Public methods

getName

Added in API level 1

abstract fun getName(): String!

Returns the name of this principal.

Return
String!	the name of this principal.

implies

Added in API level 26

open fun implies(subject: Subject!): Boolean

Returns true if the specified subject is implied by this principal.

Parameters
subject	Subject!: the Subject

Return
Boolean	true if subject is non-null and is implied by this principal, or false otherwise.