AttributeDefinition (Shibboleth Identity Provider 4.3.3-SNAPSHOT API)

All Superinterfaces:

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

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractAttributeDefinition, ContextDerivedAttributeDefinition, DateTimeAttributeDefinition, DecryptedAttributeDefinition, MappedAttributeDefinition, PrescopedAttributeDefinition, PrincipalNameAttributeDefinition, RegexSplitAttributeDefinition, ResolvedAttributeDefinition, SAML1NameIdentifierAttributeDefinition, SAML2NameIDAttributeDefinition, ScopedAttributeDefinition, ScriptedAttributeDefinition, SimpleAttributeDefinition, StaticAttributeDefinition, TemplateAttributeDefinition
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@ThreadSafe
public interface AttributeDefinition
extends ResolverPlugin<IdPAttribute>
```
Definition of attribute definition resolver plugins.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
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 Detail
  - isDependencyOnly
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boolean isDependencyOnly()
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    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
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boolean isPreRequested()
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    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"