[jboss-as7-dev] Case-sensitivity of restricted model values

[David Bosschaert]

OK, this would mean that as a reader of the model what I get always 
exactly matches of the 'allowed' value enumeration?
That would be ideal for the console...

I've created AS7-2815 to track.

Cheers,

David

On 28/11/2011 02:54, Brian Stansberry wrote:
> IMO we should always store and output values that match the "allowed"
> description in the metadata but should always be lenient about accepting
> input.
>
> I had a look at all the uses of ModelDescriptionConstants.ALLOWED and it
> would be pretty simple to tweak a few places and have everything on the
> server side conform to that rule.
>
> I'd prefer to have that be a hard rule than introduce a new piece of
> descriptive metadata. If someone really really needs to have an
> exception to the rule, then we can consider adding descriptive metadata.
>
> On 11/24/11 10:01 PM, Jason Greene wrote:
>> Good question. In this case I made it lenient but we don't necessarily have an established convention. IMO it does make a lot of sense to treat enums as case insensitive. Perhaps we need a description attribute for that
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Nov 24, 2011, at 3:21 AM, David Bosschaert<david at redhat.com>   wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Looking at the security domain subsystem I see that that the
>>> authorization flag field has an allowed list of:
>>> "allowed" =>   [
>>>     "REQUIRED",
>>>     "REQUISITE",
>>>     "SUFFICIENT",
>>>     "OPTIONAL"]
>>>
>>> However, the default model (what you get with a fresh new AS7 install)
>>> has the flag value in lowercase:
>>>     "flag" =>   "required",
>>>
>>> I'm wondering are we generally lenient wrt to case or is the
>>> pre-populated value outside the range?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> David
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