# ShadowAttributesType (Complex Type)

### Namespace: http://midpoint.evolveum.com/xml/ns/public/common/common-3

Attribute values from the resource. The values may be freshly fetched from the resource or cached. The set of attributes may be empty, may provide a complete copy of the resource object or anything in between. This depends on the implementation of the caching and fetching strategy, configuration of the provisioning subsystem or operation that was invoked. When this object is stored, attribute set will contain attribute values that are (persistently) cached from the resource. In the normal case, there should be at least attributes that identify the resource object on the resource (identifiers). This will be a single attribute in a normal case, something like uid, username, DN, etc. But if a single attribute is not enough to identify the account, more than one attribute may be present. There also may be no attributes. This can happen e.g. if IDM system knows that user should have account on the resource, but the account is not yet created and no identifier is yet assigned to it. This schema does not distinguish which attributes are identifiers and which are ordinary attributes. That can be learned from the resource schema provided by resource or resource connector. Motivation: Resource schema is dynamic, the attribute that is identifier for a specific object may be different for different resources, even if the resources are of the same type (e.g. directory servers with different LDAP schema). And we do not really need to know which of the attributes is identifier in the compile-time. Knowing that in run-time is enough. Please note that this may be out of sync with regard to the resource. In some operations (e.g. lookup) it will be only milliseconds old, but in case of stored cached values this may be days or even weeks old value. Even though there is a single extensible element "attributes", we do not want to put its content directly to the body of resource object. Doing so will cause problems with UPA rule and it will effectively prohibit the the of type replacement extensibility on this object.

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