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The provider is the piece of Searchy that manages the details of a
particular data source, like a data base manager. Configuration of
the providers depends on its type, if it is an SQL it will need a
user and password meanwhile if it is a LDAP provider it will need
a context. For a detailed description of the different parameters
of each type of providers, check out the example config file.
There are three attributes common for all types of providers:
- name
- Name that identify current provider, it is only used to locate
the provider within the agent.
- type
- The type of agent. This version of Searchy has the following
types of available agents.
- [SQL]For relational databases.
- [LDAP]For directory services.
- [Google]For the Google's search engine.
- [custom]It provides Searchy the capability to use custom providers
without need to recompile the application.
- map
- The map the the provider will use. This map have to be one of
the available in the labels map.
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