Filtering Document Access

Filtering document access is handled by the filterDocuments method of the QueryTimeFilter interface. The most common situation for filtering will occur with a search request, in which this method will be invoked with batches of documents from the result list. Based on the values returned by this method, all, some, or none of the documents might be removed from the results returned to the search user.

Access of individual documents is also controlled. For example, viewing a cached copy of a document or accessing the in-links and out-links will require a call into filterDocuments to determine the authorization for the search user.