Re: [scim] Unique Attributes

"Phil Hunt (IDM)" <phil.hunt@oracle.com> Tue, 07 February 2017 05:22 UTC

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Sorry I missed this one earlier. 

IMO The schema in the spec sets the default expectations and what clients will typically expect. 

But yes you can change uniqueness-the uniqueness for each attribute should be discoverable in your schemas endpoint. 

Phil

> On Feb 4, 2017, at 9:12 PM, Gayan Gunawardana <gayan@wso2.com> wrote:
> 
> According to [1] userName seems to be an unique attribute where duplicate resources identified with userName. Similarly 
> 
> Is Group "displayName" an unique attribute ?
> 
> If answer is no, Does implementation have flexibility to decide uniqueness ?
> 
> [1]https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7644#section-3.3
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> Thanks,
> Gayan
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