Get Attribute

This operation returns the identifier, syntax, and values of a specified attribute, attribute_id, for the object named name relative to the context ctx. If name is empty, the attribute associated with ctx is returned.

FN_attribute_t *fn_attr_get(
    FN_ctx_t *ctx,
    const FN_composite_name_t *name,
    const FN_identifier_t *attribute_id,
    unsigned int follow_link, 
    FN_status_t *status);

fn_attr_get_values() and its related functions are for getting individual values of an attribute and should be used if the combined size of all the values is expected to be too large to be returned in a single invocation of fn_attr_get().