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Identified by type="Transform"
, this AttributeResolver applies one or more regular expressions to an input attribute, either replacing its values, or generating new attributes.
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To use this plugin, the plugins.so shared library must be loaded via the |
The transforms to apply are specified using <Regex>
child elements. Each element specifies a transform rule to apply to each value of the designated input attribute(s).
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Finally, the caseSensitive
attribute specifies whether the containing <Regex>
element's match
expression is to be interpreted case-sensitively. It is a boolean that defaults to "true".
Reference
Attributes
Name | Type | Req? | Description |
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source | string | Y | Identifies the attribute ID of the input attribute(s) to process. All attributes with an ID that matches the value will be evaluated. |
Child Element
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<Regex> | 1 or more | Specifies a transform rule to apply to each value of the designated input attribute(s). See above for details on the element function Attributes
Element Content A replacement expression that can contain group placeholders to match the capturing groups (e.g., $1, $2, etc.). If the |
Example
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This is a bit overly simplistic, and assumes the source values are in a particular format. |
The example parses a displayName attribute in the form "first last" and produces two separate attributes to carry each value alone, while also reversing the order in place.
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<AttributeResolver type="Transform" source="displayName"> <Regex match="^(.+) (.+)$" dest="givenName">$1</Regex> <Regex match="^(.+) (.+)$" dest="sn">$2</Regex> <Regex match="^(.+) (.+)$">$2, $1</Regex> </AttributeResolver> |
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