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

[Brian Stansberry]

Thanks.

On 11/28/11 6:16 AM, David Bosschaert wrote:
> 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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