AttributeMetadataProvider (UNITY documentation 3.8.1 API)

All Superinterfaces:

DescribedObject, NamedObject
```
public interface AttributeMetadataProvider
extends 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(String metadata, 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(String metadata,
            AttributeType at)
     throws IllegalAttributeTypeException
```
    Should verify whether the attribute's metadata is correct for the given attribtue type.
    
    Parameters:
    
    metadata -
    
    at -
    
    Throws:
    
    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