Package pl.edu.icm.unity.engine.api.attributes

Interface AttributeMetadataProvider

  • All Superinterfaces:
    pl.edu.icm.unity.types.DescribedObject, pl.edu.icm.unity.types.NamedObject
    public interface AttributeMetadataProvider
extends pl.edu.icm.unity.types.DescribedObject
    Implementation defines an AttributeType metadata. The metadata can be used to give user-controlled semantics to ordinary attributes, e.g. to mark an attribute as contact email address or define how it should be mapped to SAML attribute.
    Author:
    K. Benedyczak

    • Method Summary

      All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods 
      Modifier and Type Method Description
      boolean isSecuritySensitive()  
      boolean isSingleton()  
      void verify​(java.lang.String metadata, pl.edu.icm.unity.types.basic.AttributeType at)
      Should verify whether the attribute's metadata is correct for the given attribtue type.

      • Methods inherited from interface pl.edu.icm.unity.types.DescribedObject

        getDescription

      • Methods inherited from interface pl.edu.icm.unity.types.NamedObject

        getName

    • Method Detail

      • verify

        void verify​(java.lang.String metadata,
            pl.edu.icm.unity.types.basic.AttributeType at)
     throws pl.edu.icm.unity.exceptions.IllegalAttributeTypeException
        Should verify whether the attribute's metadata is correct for the given attribtue type.
        Parameters:
        metadata -
        at -
        Throws:
        pl.edu.icm.unity.exceptions.IllegalAttributeTypeException

      • isSingleton

        boolean isSingleton()
        Returns:
        true if this metadata can be set for a single attribute only.

      • isSecuritySensitive

        boolean isSecuritySensitive()
        Returns:
        true if the attribute annotated with this attribute is security sensitive