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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!-- $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ -->
+
+<taglib
+    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" 
+    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
+    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd" 
+    version="2.0">
+
+     <display-name>Vitro Utilities taglib</display-name>
+     <tlib-version>1.0</tlib-version>
+
+    <short-name>Library of JSP utility tags for Vitro</short-name>
+<!--
+		This library has an assortment of tags for tasks that are common to many Vitro pages.
+-->
+
+	<tag>
+		<name>confirmLoginStatus</name>
+        <display-name>Confirm that the user is logged in as required</display-name>
+        <description>
+            Check to see that the user is logged in (optionally at a certain minimum level).
+            If not, then redirect them to the login page, with the current request stored as
+            a post-login destination.
+            
+            If "level" is specified, then the user must be logged in at least at that level
+            in order to avoid being redirected. "level" may be a String like "DBA" or "EDITOR",
+            or it may be an integer like 50 or 4.
+            
+            If "bean" is specified, it is taken as the name of a request attribute where the
+            LoginStatusBean will be stored. 
+        </description>
+        <tag-class>edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.web.jsptags.ConfirmLoginStatus</tag-class>
+		<body-content>empty</body-content>
+		<attribute>
+			<name>level</name>
+			<required>false</required>
+			<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
+		</attribute>   
+		<attribute>
+			<name>bean</name>
+			<required>false</required>
+			<rtexprvalue>true</rtexprvalue>
+		</attribute>   
+	</tag>
+
+</taglib>
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diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/jsptags/ConfirmLoginStatus.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/jsptags/ConfirmLoginStatus.java
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+/* $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ */
+
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.web.jsptags;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import javax.servlet.jsp.JspException;
+import javax.servlet.jsp.tagext.BodyTagSupport;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vedit.beans.LoginStatusBean;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroHttpServlet;
+
+/**
+ * JSP tag to generate the HTML of links for edit, delete or add of a Property.
+ * 
+ * Maybe we should have a mode where it just sets a var to a map with "href" =
+ * "edit/editDatapropDispatch.jsp?subjectUri=..." and "type" = "delete"
+ * 
+ * @author bdc34
+ * 
+ */
+public class ConfirmLoginStatus extends BodyTagSupport {
+	private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(ConfirmLoginStatus.class);
+
+	int level;
+	String beanAttributeName;
+
+	public String getLevel() {
+		return String.valueOf(level);
+	}
+
+	public void setLevel(String levelString) {
+		if ("DBA".equals(levelString)) {
+			this.level = LoginStatusBean.DBA;
+		} else if ("CURATOR".equals(levelString)) {
+			this.level = LoginStatusBean.CURATOR;
+		} else if ("EDITOR".equals(levelString)) {
+			this.level = LoginStatusBean.EDITOR;
+		} else if ("NON_EDITOR".equals(levelString)) {
+			this.level = LoginStatusBean.NON_EDITOR;
+		} else {
+			throw new IllegalArgumentException("Level attribute '"
+					+ levelString + "' is not valid.");
+		}
+	}
+
+	public String getBean() {
+		return this.beanAttributeName;
+	}
+
+	public void setbean(String beanAttributeName) {
+		this.beanAttributeName = beanAttributeName;
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public int doEndTag() throws JspException {
+		LoginStatusBean loginBean = LoginStatusBean.getBean(getRequest());
+		if (loginBean.isLoggedInAtLeast(level)) {
+			return setBeanAndReturn(loginBean);
+		} else {
+			return redirectAndSkipPage();
+		}
+	}
+
+	private int setBeanAndReturn(LoginStatusBean loginBean) {
+		if (beanAttributeName != null) {
+			getRequest().setAttribute(beanAttributeName, loginBean);
+		}
+		return EVAL_PAGE;
+	}
+
+	private int redirectAndSkipPage() throws JspException {
+		try {
+			VitroHttpServlet.redirectToLoginPage(getRequest(), getResponse());
+			return SKIP_PAGE;
+		} catch (IOException ioe) {
+			throw new JspException(
+					"<vitro:confirmLoginStatus> could not redirect to login page",
+					ioe);
+		}
+	}
+
+	private HttpServletRequest getRequest() {
+		return ((HttpServletRequest) pageContext.getRequest());
+	}
+
+	private HttpServletResponse getResponse() {
+		return (HttpServletResponse) pageContext.getResponse();
+	}
+}