Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Zeller <>]

I'm wondering if we might want to support/encourage namespaces in attribute names.

(I think there's folks on this list with lots of experience with such things :-)

My rationale is that often a group is represented as a collection of attributes, whether it be for provisioning, auditing, or transmission across a wire, and it might be beneficial for a consumer to be able to determine attribute 'metadata' based on name, since a consumer might have access only to an attribute's name and value.

For example, an attribute describing a stem might be named "grouper:stemAttribute:name".

I don't think we need any special code, we should consider an attribute name to be a String, but in practice we should use a reasonably simple naming convention - which I hope others will have more experience suggesting.

TomZ

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Chris Hyzer <> wrote:

Hey,

There was already a wiki page on the attribute framework, and I updated it.

https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+Attributes

Note, this doesn't specify which release the features will go in, I assume 1.5 will be a limited edition as we get started with attributes.  :)

Let me know any feedback.

Regards,
Chris