protected AccessControlList getAccessControlListOrNull()

in src/main/java/org/apache/sling/jcr/jackrabbit/accessmanager/post/AbstractAccessPostServlet.java [495:519]

• 22 lines of code
• 7 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    protected AccessControlList getAccessControlListOrNull(
            final AccessControlManager accessControlManager,
            final String resourcePath, final boolean mayCreate)
            throws RepositoryException {
        AccessControlList acl = null;
        // check for an existing access control list to edit
        AccessControlPolicy[] policies = accessControlManager.getPolicies(resourcePath);
        for (AccessControlPolicy policy : policies) {
            if (policy instanceof AccessControlList) {
                acl = (AccessControlList) policy;
            }
        }

        if (acl == null && mayCreate) {
            // no existing access control list, try to create if allowed
            AccessControlPolicyIterator applicablePolicies = accessControlManager.getApplicablePolicies(resourcePath);
            while (applicablePolicies.hasNext()) {
                AccessControlPolicy policy = applicablePolicies.nextAccessControlPolicy();
                if (policy instanceof AccessControlList) {
                    acl = (AccessControlList) policy;
                }
            }
        }
        return acl;
    }