RE: [wsrp-wsia] [I#118] RegistrationData.userProfileExtensions[]needsa des crip tion sub-element

[Monica Martin <mmartin@certivo.net>]

See inline comment.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Thompson [mailto:richt2@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 5:11 AM
To: wsrp-wsia@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [wsrp-wsia] [I#118]
RegistrationData.userProfileExtensions[] needsa des crip tion
sub-element







I think there is some confusion on usage here.

RegistrationData.userProfileExtensions (a String[]) is a field the
Consumer
sends to the Producer declaring what extensions are available from the
Consumer. The security (if I remember correctly) subgroup expected these
to
be named sets both parties would understand (spec uses
"SAP-R3-UserProfile"
as an example).

mm1: I believe this is true.

EntityDescription.userProfileItems (a String[]) is the field where an
entity declares the set of profile items it seeks access to. The spec
currently anticipates these come directly from either the base set of
profile fields or those the Consumer declared as available. If we want
to
expand this semantics, I would agree that String[] is the wrong type and
that we will need to define an additional structure. Do we want to
expand
the semantics to effectively the entity declaring in general what it is
able to use?



 

                      Gil Tayar

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Status: Active
Topic:  Registration
Class:  Minor Techical
Title:  RegistrationData.userProfileExtensions[] needs a description
sub-element
Document Section: Draft-WSIA-WSRP_Core_Interface-v0.8, Section 6.1.1
Description:
The userProfileExtensions sub-element of RegistrationData is just a
String
array, permitting the Producer to inform the Consumer of the names of
user
profile extensions it wishes to receive.  By itself, the name is pretty
useless to the Consumer, who has the task of trying to map the named
extension to something comparable in its own User management system.
Typically this would need to be a manual task, and I think that a human
administrator would like not just a name, but also a text description of
what the Producer expects as a value for this field.

This is also an interoperability issue with JSR 168, which allows the
portlet to specify the name and description of the custom user
attributes
it wants the portal to provide.





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