[higgins-dev] Multiple context types for a context Id and context factor

[Rajalakshmi S Iyer <iyer_rajalakshmi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

The 'IdentityAttributeService' section in the configuration file that
points to the IdAS registry typically contains the following sections:

<Setting Name="ContextFactoryInstancesList" Type="htf:list">
      <Setting Name="JNDIContextFactory" Type="htf:map">
            <Setting Name="Instance"
Type="xsd:string">JNDIContextFactory</Setting>
            <Setting Name="ContextTypes" Type="htf:list">
                  <Setting Name="JNDIContextType"
Type="xsd:string">$context+ldap</Setting>
            </Setting>
      </Setting>
</Setting>

<Setting Name="ContextIdsList" Type="htf:list">
      <Setting Name="urn:ldap@ltoyota" Type="htf:map">
            <Setting Name="ContextId"
Type="xsd:string">urn:ldap@ltoyota</Setting>
                  <Setting Name="ContextTypes" Type="htf:list">
                        <Setting Name="JNDIContextType"
Type="xsd:string">$context+ldap</Setting>
                  </Setting>
                  <Setting Name="Connection" Type="htf:map">
                        <Setting Name="Address"
Type="xsd:string">ldap://ltoyota:389</Setting>
                  </Setting>
            </Setting>
      </Setting>
</Setting>

The question here is why does 'ContextTypes' for a context factory or a
context id need to be a list? Does it mean that one context factory or id
could represent more than one context types. A supporting use case for the
decision to use a List here would be of help.

Thanks,
Best regards,
Rajalakshmi Iyer