Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Tom Barton <>]

Martin van Es wrote:
> I still have a question about the foreign attributes: what is it that makes 
> them 'tick'?
> I understand from the documentation that any column returned translates to an 
> available attribute. So if I would use a (hypothetical) query 'select foo as 
> bar from test where id=?' I would automagically have an attribute 'bar' 
> available in my grouper queries? If this is true, which query is responsibale 
> for this magic? I see 3 in sources.xml for the example source: searchSubject, 
> searchSubjectByIdentifier and search.

That is true, and each of the 3 select statements configured for a JDBC 
source in sources.xml is responsible for presenting Subject attributes 
from the back-end source. It's best and simplest for all three select 
statements to return the same set of columns from the back-end, though 
it's not strictly necessary.

For the JNDISourceAdapter, the set of 'attribute' elements defines the 
attributes returned by all 3 LDAP queries.

Tom