An attribute definition specifies the name, type, minimum value, maximum value, default value and enumeration of allowed values for the attributes. The Aggregate attribute specifies whether the attribute holds a scalar value or a collection of values. An AttributeDefinition is a snapshot of a server-side AttributeDefinition instance; It is a mutable value object associated with an AttributeDefinition instance which has some of its attributes materialized during a load operation. The set of loaded Attributes depends on the Projection to the load operation. From an object model point of view, an AttributeDefinition is a tuple with a globally unique entity ID (EID) and a mandatory name, property type. Notes:

Attribution supported property types are:

  type PropertyType is
       STRING                => java.lang.String
       INTEGER               => java.lang.Integer
       LONG                  => java.lang.Long
       FLOAT                 => java.lang.Float
       DOUBLE                => java.lang.Double     
       BOOLEAN               => java.lang.Boolean
       DATETIME              => java.util.Date
       COLLABID              => oracle.csi.CollabId
       PERSON                => oracle.csi.CollabId
 

For Minimum and Maximum values only Number and Date types are supported.

If isAggregate is true the definition may hold a list of values. Setting isAggregate to true will require the user to specify a list of values instead of a scalar with the following exceptions: Minimum value, Maximum value must be scalers. Allowed values is a single dimensioned list of scaler values. List of lists is NOT supported.

Below are examples in XML formats. All examples are shown with all inherited members. Quoting when required is part of the examples, but you must obviously populate with your own data.