Shibboleth Developers

[Parviz Dousti <>]

I CC this to the list for the record and documentation:

--On Friday, July 26, 2002 11:22 AM -0400 Scott Cantor <> 
wrote:


> > Just use the short name as they appear when you "list" arps.
>
> Probably has to be changed later, since that's not a unique name. The
> attribute's name would probably be the best choice here, which is a URN.
>
> -- Scott

Attribute names used in ARPs has not significance other than finding the 
LDAP attribute and the java class that creates the SAML attribute.  So if I 
use the name "foo" for an attribute in an ARP then AA uses that name to 
find the value for attribute "foo" in LDAP (or other repositories).  Then 
it loads the java class foo.class to handle this attribute.  Java code 
decides what the external name, scope, value, etc. for the attribute should 
be.

Hope this helps,

Parviz



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