A claim is a piece of information about a particular subject. The "Claim Management" component component of WSO2 Carbon allows you to map a set of attributes from the underlying user store to a set of defined claims.
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A set of claims is identified as a dialect. Different dialects represent the same piece of information with different claim URIs.
With the help of the "Claim Management" component component, these different claims can be mapped with the attributes of the user which are associated with their profile.
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