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[Martin van Es <>]

Hi,

Inspired by Gary's answer about displaying subject's description in search 
results I started looking into this (subject.display.default eg.) further to 
see if I could grasp the inner workings of Grouper a bit more. It turns out I 
just don't get it.

The description of the parameter says:
# In the case of subjects, an attribute can be configured based on the 
subject's SourceAdapter

When I look into the sources.xml file I find the "example" source, connected 
using edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.subj.GrouperJdbcConnectionProvider.

A couple of param's are configured (id, name and description) and some 
searches, but the strange thing is, I can use 'type' and 'source' as well, 
but 
Type_AttributeType or Source_AttributeType are not defined? Where do I look 
to 
see what are valid values, why do type and source work? At the moment, it 
feels a bit like 'magic'. Part of the values are defined (as far as I 
understand) but some of them aren't. Also, there is no id or type column in 
the subjectattributes table, how are they mapped to the parameter's values?


Regards,
Martin van Es