RE: [provision] Containment Rules

[Darran Rolls <Darran.Rolls@Sun.COM>]

This is interesting.  How would one express such a rule, could we use XACML?


It sounds like the target capabilities definition element is the key to SPML
2.0.  We should try and draw out an rough object model here.  If someone
wants to throw out a strawman (in words) I'll volunteer to draw the UML
model...

-djr  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary P Cole [mailto:Gary.P.Cole@Sun.COM] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 5:27 AM
> To: PSTC
> Subject: [provision] Containment Rules
> 
> We've said that the core create operation supports 
> containment (hierarchies).  Every object is bound beneath a 
> parent--the default parent is the target.  Are there rules 
> about what types of objects a particular type of object can contain? 
> 
> For example, suppose that an OU can contain another OU (but 
> not an ORG). 
> Does the target declare this somehow, or must the requestor 
> "program by exception"?  I think that we'd prefer to declare 
> these rules so that the requestor can (understand them and 
> thereby) avoid exception.
> 
> Perhaps each target could also expose its containment rules?  
> In much the same way that each target exposes its 
> capabilities (i.e. the set of interfaces each object type 
> supports), the target could expose the set of types each 
> object type may contain.
> 
> Gary
> 
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