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[Tom Barton <>]

Martin van Es wrote:
> Also, in sources.xml three param-names are referenced that I can't find back 
> in the documentation: SubjectID_AttributeType, Name_AttributeType and 
> Description_AttributeType. What are they? Generic parameters, or specific 
> methods that belong to the example connector (and thus explained by reading 
> the subject api sources?)

The "Subject API" really consists of 2 interfaces, Source and Subject. 
The Subject interface has methods to get the "id", "name", and 
"description" of a Subject object, ie, the interface specifies that 
Subject objects must have these properties. The *_AttributeType 
declarations tell the source adapter which back-end attributes or 
columns are these distinguished properties.

There's a clue to this, but just a clue, in the first table in

https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/i2miCommon/subject-0.3.1-doc

Tom