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AttributeDefinitionCommonAttributes

Name

Type

Default

Description

Name

Type

Default

Description

id

String



Identifier for the IdPAttribute as well as its definition. This is used for logging and to establish dependencies and relationships between connectors and definitions, and to reference the data item in filter rules and many other configuration features.

Note that the value MUST NOT contain whitespace, and use of certain other special characters will result in warnings that should be addressed in case the rules are made more strict in future versions.

activationConditionRef

Bean Reference



Bean ID of a condition to decide whether to resolve this definition, see here.
Mutually exclusive with relyingParties and resolutionPhases and variants

relyingParties

Space-delimited list



List of entity IDs for which this Attribute Definition should be resolved.
Mutually exclusive with activationConditionRef

excludeRelyingParties 4.1

Space-delimited list



List of entity IDs for which this Attribute Definition should not be resolved.
Mutually exclusive with activationConditionRef

resolutionPhases 4.1

space-delimited list



List of resolution phases (i.e. flows) during which this Attribute Definition should be resolved.
Mutually exclusive with activationConditionRef

excludeResolutionPhases 4.1

space-delimited list



List of resolution phases (i.e. flows) during which this Attribute Definition should not be resolved.
Mutually exclusive with activationConditionRef

dependencyOnly

Boolean

false

If set to true, the attribute is not exposed outside the resolution process and is available solely within the resolution process

preRequested

Boolean

false

If set to true, the attribute (and its dependencies) will be resolved in pre-pass and its value made available to other definitions' ActivationConditions.

See PreRequestedAttributes for details.

profileContextStrategyRef

Bean Reference



DEPRECATED  in 4.3

Bean ID of a function injected to override the normal lookup process for the request's ProfileRequestContext