Adding new Attribute Interfaces to java-api.

[Cantor, Scott]

On 9/23/13 12:03 PM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:

>In most cases the Interface would collect most of the methods and inherit
>the name currently used by the definition.  The definition would then
>become
>BaseXXXX (or, if not abstract ConcreteXXX - unless anyone has a better
>name
>for this case)

I tend to use Basic, Simple, or something else that's descriptive of the
nature of the implementation.

>The motivation is to provide another, very high level plugin point for
>people who need that level of control.  I'm just firing a mail in here to
>test whether anyone thinks this is a bad idea and to ask whether anyone
>has
>a preference for whether the interfaces should go in idp-attribute-api, or
>into the appropriate idp-attribute-*-api module?

Varies by case, the filter stuff should be in filter-api, most of them in
resolver-api, etc.

-- Scott