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  • From: Scott Koranda <>
  • To: Chris Hyzer <>
  • Cc: grouper-users <>
  • Subject: Re: [grouper-users] identifierAttributes in sources.xml
  • Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:45:04 -0500

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Chris Hyzer
<>
wrote:
> So, you configure your attributes based on columns. Some of the attributes
> need to be used as "identifiers" in the findByIdentifier queries. e.g.
> your netId, or eppn would be identifiers. Generally everything except the
> opaque ID. So you comma separate those attributes which are identifiers in
> the value of the XML element. ok? :)

Got it. Thanks.

So in the example sources.xml should 'LOGINID' really be 'loginid' to
be consistent, or is it case insensitive?

Thanks,

Scott

>
> thanks,
> chris
> ________________________________________
> From:
>
>
> []
> on behalf of Scott Koranda
> []
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 4:28 PM
> To: grouper-users
> Subject: [grouper-users] identifierAttributes in sources.xml
>
> Hi,
>
> I have in the past used the JNDI source to obtain subjects
> from an LDAP directory.
>
> Now I want to configure a JDBC source to obtain subjects from
> a relational database.
>
> I am confused about the role of 'identifierAttributes'. In the
> default sources.xml for 2.1.0 I see this:
>
> <!-- comma separate the identifiers for this row, this is for
> the findByIdentifiers if using an in clause -->
> <init-param>
> <param-name>identifierAttributes</param-name>
> <param-value>LOGINID</param-value>
> </init-param>
>
> What precisely does that comment mean?
>
> How is LOGINID used?
>
> I cannot find LOGINID used anywhere else in that file. Is that
> a typo and it should not have been capitalized?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott



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