Resource

The <Resource> element also allows the definition of a resource entity directly from within the configuration. Such element must specify:

• the entity type using the Type attribute
• a unique Id
• property values using corresponding column names as attributes

When inserting resource-identity in the resource table this way, the Id attribute must be a positive integer. Negative Ids are reserved for Identity Manager's engine.

Examples

The following sample inserts two entities of type User: John Smith and Anthony Baker. John Smith is the manager of Anthony Baker.

The UserEntity Type is defined as follows:

  <EntityType Identifier="User">    <Property Identifier="FirstName" Type="String" TargetColumnIndex="4" />    <Property Identifier="LastName" Type="String" TargetColumnIndex="5" />    <Property Identifier="Manager" Type="String" TargetColumnIndex="128" />  </EntityType>

The two new resources are inserted in the database using the <Resource> tag.

They are assigned the ids 300 and 301, they are positive integers (since User type resources are resource-identity) and not yet used in the UR_Resource table.

The User resource properties (FirstName, LastName and Manager) are matched to a UR_Resource table column, such as C4, C5 or I40 according to their data column index, in the above Entity Type definition.

• FirstName: index 4 => column C4
• LastName: index 5 => column C5
• Manager: index 128 => column I40

<Resource Type="User" Id="300" C4="John" C5="Smith" /><Resource Type="User" Id="301" C4="Anthony" C5="Baker" I40="-300" />

Most encountered use cases in real life is populating very tiny datasets like employee categories (Internal, External) or personal titles (Mr, Ms). Identities are almost never insert this way. This contrived example aims at illustrating the method.

Properties

Property	Details
C0 optional	Type String Description A column of storage. Going from 0 to 127.
Dirty default value: false	Type Boolean Description Flag set by the Identity Manager-Set-RecentlyModifiedFlag task.
DisplayName_L1 optional	Type String Description Display name of the resource in language 1 (up to 16).
I40 optional	Type Int64 Description This columns are used to store the id of an linked entity. When an entity type has a mono-valued association we usually use this columns to store the information. By default there are 10 columns for the storage of the mono-valued associations.
Type required	Type Int64 Description The type of the resource. References the internal id of an EntityType.