<path-permission> && <grant-uri-permission>

<path-permission>

SYNTAX:

<path-permission android:path="string"
                 android:pathPrefix="string"
                 android:pathPattern="string"
                 android:permission="string"
                 android:readPermission="string"
                 android:writePermission="string" />

CONTAINED IN:

<provider>

DESCRIPTION:

Defines the path and required permissions for a specific subset of data within a content provider. This element can be specified multiple times to supply multiple paths.

ATTRIBUTES:

android:path

A complete URI path for a subset of content provider data. Permission can be granted only to the particular data identified by this path. When used to provide search suggestion content, it must be appended with "/search_suggest_query".

android:pathPrefix

The initial part of a URI path for a subset of content provider data. Permission can be granted to all data subsets with paths that share this initial part.

android:pathPattern

A complete URI path for a subset of content provider data, but one that can use the following wildcards:

• An asterisk ('*'). This matches a sequence of 0 to many occurrences of the immediately preceding character.
• A period followed by an asterisk (".*"). This matches any sequence of 0 or more characters.

Because '\' is used as an escape character when the string is read from XML (before it is parsed as a pattern), you will need to double-escape. For example, a literal '*' would be written as "\\*" and a literal '\' would be written as "\\". This is basically the same as what you would need to write if constructing the string in Java code.

For more information on these types of patterns, see the descriptions of PATTERN_LITERAL,PATTERN_PREFIX, and PATTERN_SIMPLE_GLOB in the PatternMatcher class.

android:permission

The name of a permission that clients must have in order to read or write the content provider's data. This attribute is a convenient way of setting a single permission for both reading and writing. However, the  readPermission and  writePermission attributes take precedence over this one.

android:readPermission

A permission that clients must have in order to query the content provider.

android:writePermission

A permission that clients must have in order to make changes to the data controlled by the content provider.

INTRODUCED IN:

API Level 4

<grant-uri-permission>

SYNTAX:

<grant-uri-permission android:path="string"
                      android:pathPattern="string"
                      android:pathPrefix="string" />

CONTAINED IN:

<provider>

DESCRIPTION:

Specifies which data subsets of the parent content provider permission can be granted for. Data subsets are indicated by the path part of a  content: URI. (The authority part of the URI identifies the content provider.) Granting permission is a way of enabling clients of the provider that don't normally have permission to access its data to overcome that restriction on a one-time basis.

If a content provider's grantUriPermissions attribute is "true", permission can be granted for any the data under the provider's purview. However, if that attribute is "false", permission can be granted only to data subsets that are specified by this element. A provider can contain any number of <grant-uri-permission> elements. Each one can specify only one path (only one of the three possible attributes).

For information on how permission is granted, see the <intent-filter> element'sgrantUriPermissions attribute.

ATTRIBUTES:

android:path 
android:pathPrefix 
android:pathPattern

A path identifying the data subset or subsets that permission can be granted for. The  pathattribute specifies a complete path; permission can be granted only to the particular data subset identified by that path. The  pathPrefix attribute specifies the initial part of a path; permission can be granted to all data subsets with paths that share that initial part. The  pathPattern attribute specifies a complete path, but one that can contain the following wildcards:

• An asterisk ('*') matches a sequence of 0 to many occurrences of the immediately preceding character.

• A period followed by an asterisk (".*") matches any sequence of 0 to many characters.

Because '\' is used as an escape character when the string is read from XML (before it is parsed as a pattern), you will need to double-escape: For example, a literal '*' would be written as "\\*" and a literal '\' would be written as "\\\\". This is basically the same as what you would need to write if constructing the string in Java code.

For more information on these types of patterns, see the descriptions of PATTERN_LITERAL,PATTERN_PREFIX, and PATTERN_SIMPLE_GLOB in the PatternMatcher class.

INTRODUCED IN:

API Level 1

SEE ALSO:

the  grantUriPermissions attribute of the  <provider> element