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[Chris Hyzer <>]

The subject interface has these:

I don't know where the javadoc is, but here is the source

http://viewvc.internet2.edu/viewvc.py/subject/src/edu/internet2/middleware/subject/Subject.java?root=I2MI&view=markup

Basically the example subject type built in to grouper implements those 
methods, so they are attributes, along with the custom ones you make up...

This is the implementation of that interface for the sample subject:

http://viewvc.internet2.edu/viewvc.py/grouper/src/grouper/edu/internet2/middleware/grouper/RegistrySubject.java?root=I2MI&view=markup

Note the "description" always returns empty string :)

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin van Es 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 10:05 AM
> To: Grouper Users Mailing List
> Subject: [grouper-users] subject.display options
> 
> 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