Package net.shibboleth.idp.attribute.resolver

Interface AttributeDefinition

All Superinterfaces:

Component, DestructableComponent, IdentifiedComponent, InitializableComponent, ResolverPlugin<IdPAttribute>, UnmodifiableComponent

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAttributeDefinition, ContextDerivedAttributeDefinition, DecryptedAttributeDefinition, MappedAttributeDefinition, PrescopedAttributeDefinition, PrincipalNameAttributeDefinition, RegexSplitAttributeDefinition, ResolvedAttributeDefinition, SAML1NameIdentifierAttributeDefinition, SAML2NameIDAttributeDefinition, ScopedAttributeDefinition, ScriptedAttributeDefinition, SimpleAttributeDefinition, StaticAttributeDefinition, TemplateAttributeDefinition

@ThreadSafe
public interface AttributeDefinition
extends ResolverPlugin<IdPAttribute>

Definition of attribute definition resolver plugins.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	isDependencyOnly()	Gets whether this attribute definition is only a dependency and thus its values should never be released outside the resolver.
boolean	isPreRequested()	Gets whether this attribute definition has to be resolved prior in a first pass (in order to prime contexts which can be used in the "main pass").

Methods inherited from interface net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.component.DestructableComponent

destroy, isDestroyed

Methods inherited from interface net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.component.IdentifiedComponent

getId

Methods inherited from interface net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.component.InitializableComponent

initialize, isInitialized

Methods inherited from interface net.shibboleth.idp.attribute.resolver.ResolverPlugin

getActivationCondition, getAttributeDependencies, getDataConnectorDependencies, isPropagateResolutionExceptions, resolve

Method Details

isDependencyOnly

boolean isDependencyOnly()

Gets whether this attribute definition is only a dependency and thus its values should never be released outside the resolver.

Returns:

true if this attribute is only used as a dependency, false otherwise

isPreRequested

boolean isPreRequested()

Gets whether this attribute definition has to be resolved prior in a first pass (in order to prime contexts which can be used in the "main pass").

Returns:

true if this is a definition to be done "first"