Entity DataObject represents a virtual member manager
entity.
All other entity types, like PersonAccount, Group, OrgContainer,
are extended from this Entity DataObject. The following shows the
inheritance relationship among entity data objects:
- Entity
- Geographic Location
- RolePlayer
- Party
- Person
- Group
- OrgContainer
- LoginAccount
Note: The RolePlayer and Party data objects are for the future
expansion of virtual member manager and are part of the schema for
this release to provide forward compatibility.
The data graph structure of an entity data object consists of:
- identifier
- contains a single IdentifierType DataObject.
- parent
- is a containment property which is used to link to the parent
of the entity in the virtual member manager hierarchy. It only contains
a single Entity data object because an entity can only have one parent.
Also, because any entity can be parent of any other entity, the data
object in the property is an Entity data object.
- children
- is a containment property that is used to link to the children
of the entity in the virtual member manager hierarchy. It contains
multiple Entity DataObjects because an entity can have multiple children.
Also, because any entity can be a child of another entity, the data
object in the property is an Entity data object.
- groups
- is a containment property which is used to link to the groups
this entity belongs to. It contains multiple Group DataObjects because
an entity can belong to multiple groups.
XML schema definition
The following is the
XML schema definition for Entity DataObject:
<xsd:complexType name="Entity">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element name="identifier" type="IdentifierType" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
<xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" ref="parent"/>
<xsd:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" ref="children"/>
<xsd:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0" ref="groups"/>
<xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" ref="createTimestamp"/>
<xsd:element maxOccurs="1" minOccurs="0" ref="modifyTimestamp"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
Sample data object
The following is a sample
Entity data object that contains one entity as its parent and two
Group entities as its groups.
<wim:Root>
<wim:entities xsi:type="wim:PersonAccount">
<wim:identifier uniqueName="uid=persone,ou=OrgUnitA,o=OrgA,cn=users,dc=yourco,dc=com"/>
<wim:groups>
<wim:identifier uniqueName="cn=Group A,cn=groups,dc=yourco,dc=com"/>
</wim:groups>
<wim:groups>
<wim:identifier uniqueName="cn=Group B,cn=groups,dc=yourco,dc=com"/>
</wim:groups>
</wim:entities>
</wim:Root>