Package pl.edu.icm.unity.engine.api.attributes

Interface AttributeMetadataProvider

All Superinterfaces:

DescribedObject, NamedObject

public interface AttributeMetadataProvider
extends DescribedObject

Implementation defines an AttributeType metadata. The metadata can be used to give user-controlled semantics to ordinary attributes, e.g. to mark an attribute as contact email address or define how it should be mapped to SAML attribute.

Author:

K. Benedyczak

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	isSecuritySensitive()
boolean	isSingleton()
void	verify(String metadata, AttributeType at)	Should verify whether the attribute's metadata is correct for the given attribtue type.

Methods inherited from interface pl.edu.icm.unity.types.DescribedObject

getDescription

Methods inherited from interface pl.edu.icm.unity.types.NamedObject

getName

Method Details

verify

void verify(String metadata,
 AttributeType at)
     throws IllegalAttributeTypeException

Should verify whether the attribute's metadata is correct for the given attribtue type.

Parameters:

metadata -

at -

Throws:

IllegalAttributeTypeException

isSingleton

boolean isSingleton()

Returns:

true if this metadata can be set for a single attribute only.

isSecuritySensitive

boolean isSecuritySensitive()

Returns:

true if the attribute annotated with this attribute is security sensitive