Entity Schema

Overview

Entity Schemas are contracts for the values of connector and adapter entities.

Parallels can be drawn between the concept of an object class and a schema of both adapters and connectors.

Schema Fields

Each entity schema comprises of a series of fields, which each enforce constraints on the data being described.

These constraints include:

• Enforcing a particular value type against the data field.
• Denoting a particular data field as the key of the component (and subsequently enforcing uniqueness).
• Describing whether a data field can be updated on the source system.
  e.g. Whether a connector can update that field
• Describing whether that data field must have a value.
• Along with a series of additional constraints that can be applied on a per field basis.

• Binary Schema Field
• Boolean Schema Field
• Byte Schema Field
• Date Schema Field
• Decimal Schema Field
• Distinguished Name Schema Field
• Double Schema Field
• GUID Schema Field
• Integer Schema Field
• Long Schema Field
• Short Schema Field
• Single Schema Field
• String Schema Field
• Time Schema Field
• Timestamp Schema Field