how to fetch Raw attribute

[Peter Schober]

* Peter Schober <peter.schober at univie.ac.at> [2015-03-12 09:54]:
> * lalithj <j_lalith at hotmail.com> [2015-03-12 07:17]:
> > pass a special attribute to them which is not in our LDAP,
> > 
> > however we can fetch this attribute via a java program,
> 
> The IDP (v2 and v3) has the abilities and methods, as well as
> contributed extensions, that are listed in the documentation.
> So if you need anything other than JDBC or JNDI/LDAP, and none of the
> contributed extensions do exactly what you want, you'd have to write
> your own extension (or get someone to write it for you).

The obvious alternative being to sync the data to one of the sources
your IDP can access.

Another alternative would be to deploy some kind of meta-directory in
front of that unspecified source of yours, write the integration code
(maybe a "connector" of some sorts) for that meta-directory (instead
of for the IDP itself), and expose the data from the meta-directory to
your IDP via LDAP.  Here you'd be trading the benefit of avoiding to
sync data around (with all the problems that come with it) for having
to maintain an additonal infrastructure, including your extensions to
it.

So you can move the problem around as desired (syncing and the usual
issues; deploying additional infrastructure, writing code for that and
maintaining it; writing a proper extension for the IDP and maintaining
that), but somewhere work will need to happen.
-peter