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Example custom identifier type

Tags

The xml describing a custom identifier type uses specific tags, as follows:

<name> denotes the identifier’s internal name and must be unique (standard match identifiers are all prefixed with “dnm:”)

<label> denotes the identifier’s label as it appears in the GUI

<description> denotes the identifier’s description as it appears in the GUI

<systemDefinition> is reserved for future use and must be set to false.

Example

The following example xml represents a custom identifier added to matchlibrary.xml:

  <identifierDefinition>

    <name>newidentifier</name>

    <label>My New Identifier</label>

    <description>The description</description>

    <systemDefinition>false</systemDefinition>

    <formalAttribute>

    <name>value1</name>

    <label>First value</label>

    <type>string</type>

    </formalAttribute>

    <formalAttribute>

    <name>value2</name>

<label>Second value</label>

<type>number</type>

    </formalAttribute>

  </identifierDefinition>

See also the Example custom comparison for how to associate comparisons with identifier types.