Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

> Also, I'm assuming the 'attributes' is a Map of attribute names/values.
> Being a strong proponent of strict typing and taking advantage of
> compilers, I always find this to be a hassle and very error prone.  The

Agreed, though...  We do have constants for common attribute names, and even 
dedicated setters (e.g. group name is actually an attribute of a group), but 
you can also assign custom attributes... so if we don't know what the valid 
attribute name is, then its hard to enforce an enum or something.  I guess 
the name could be an interface which would be a little better... and you 
could make constants out of your own custom ones, but it borders on making 
things too complex vs making things correct perhaps...

Chris