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RE: [higgins-dev] ICard getIssuer and getIssuerName - What's the diff?

Sergey,

As a first step, please just update the comment text on these two methods to
reflect what you've just written in your email below. Both methods currently
have (incorrectly) identical "Returns the human friendly...etc." comments.
And that's confusing.

-Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: higgins-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:higgins-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sergey Lyakhov
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 5:01 AM
> To: Higgins (Trust Framework) Project developer discussions
> Subject: Re: [higgins-dev] ICard getIssuer and getIssuerName - What's the
> diff?
> 
> Mike,
> 
> > What's the diff?
> 
> According to the CardSpace TechRef there are two data fields in
> information
> card:
> .../ic:InformationCardMetaData/ic:IssuerId:  This required element
> contains
> an identifier for the identity provider using which a selfissued
> credential
> descriptor in a card issued by that identity provider can be resolved to
> the
> correct self-issued card. The element content may be empty.
> 
> .../ic:InformationCardMetaData/ic:IssuerName:  This required element
> contains a friendly name of the card issuer.
> 
> So, in case of CardSpace-interoperable providers, getIssuer() returns
> ic:IssuerId and getIssuerName() returns  ic:IssuerName. Should we rename
> getIssuer() to getIssuerID()?
> 
> Thanks,
> Sergey Lyakhov
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael McIntosh" <mikemci@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <higgins-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 2:55 AM
> Subject: [higgins-dev] ICard getIssuer and getIssuerName - What's the
> diff?
> 
> 
> >        /**
> >         * Returns the human friendly name of the card issuer,
> originator,
> > creator.
> >         */
> >        public String >
> >        /**
> >         * Returns the human friendly name of the card issuer,
> originator,
> > creator.
> >         */
> >        public String getIssuerName();
> >
> > What's the diff?
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