Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Barton <>]

Chris Hyzer wrote:
> OK, just not clear about what all terms are. The group name contains
> all the stem extensions? That makes it easy.

Yes. The "name" attribute is the ":" delimited concatenation of stem 
hierarchy down which the group lives, ending with the group's 
"extension" attribute. "name" is like a file system pathname; 
"extension" is like a file system filename.

> > > 6. Subject search: - id vs identifier?  which to use?
> > Probably ought to allow either. In addition to:
> >   subjectLookups[0].setSubjectId("abc");
> > have
> >   subjectLookups[0].setSubjectIdentifier("xyz");
> > They could be mutually exclusive i.e throw an exception if the other
> > has
> > been called, or use id in preference if both set.
>
> Actually, I want to know what the difference is.  In the Javadoc it
> is not explained what the difference between subject id and
> identifier is.

Cf. 
<https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/i2miCommon/Subject+API>, 
especially the paragraphs below the table.

Tom