RequestedAttributes and EntityAttributes

[Cantor, Scott]

On 6/12/14, 5:14 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:

>>Oh, I would say that AttributeInMetadata we reserve to mean "from the
>> RequestedAttributes in an ACS", and define something else for the
>> EntityAttributes case (which I think we already did?).
>
>Not that I remember.  But I hope someone will correct me.  For now I'll
>got
>for "EntityAttributeInMetadata".

I'm 90% sure we added a filter function in 2.4 that does a simple check
against EntityAttributes. I was positive we did that to incorporate a
custom extension I or somebody else did to implement category-based
attribute release. Maybe we just didn't get it ported to V3 yet.

>from the resolution.  So "resolution" Action takes requested attribute
>names
>and produces attribute and the "trim atttibute values" Action takes
>resolved
>attributes and requested attributes and applies the trimming. I've made up
>the word trimming here to distinguish from filtering.
>
>I've entered case 418 for this flow.

Yes, trimming is fine to distinguish the concepts.

-- Scott