StoredID/persistentID only when used?

[John Morrison]

On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 10:12 +0100, Rod Widdowson wrote:
> > Seeing how this half works, what am I doing wrong?
> 
> I think that you condition isn’t attached to the correct place.
> 
> The dependencies are resolved before the resolver is invoked so the dependency of eduPersonTargetedID is invoked. Which is to say that the condition is about the plugin (DataConnector, Attribute Resolver) _not_ about its conditions.
> 
> The dependency of 'eduPersonTargetedID' is 'StoredId' and that does all the work (including writing to the DB).
> 
> Then 'eduPersonTargetedID' is invoked and the predicate says "return with no further action".  But by that time the 'StoreId' has beaten on your DataBase.
> 
> If you can, try making the 'StoredId' (which after all is the think you want to supress working) conditional.  You then don't need to do anything to 'eduPersonTargetedID' - it will see that it has no input and bail (potentially with a warning - so maybe you do need the condition).
> 
> /Rod
> 
Bang on Rod!



Cheers, I was looking at it the wrong way..... I did look for any
conditions to be used with StoredID, but found no documentation for it.
Hence, thinking I was still in the right place (attribute definition)
for activating it :/


//John