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  • From: blair christensen <>
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  • Subject: Re: [grouper-dev] Custom group types, attributes and names
  • Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:33:05 -0800

On 2005.01.21 08:52, Tom Barton wrote:
> Bugzilla #271 is to complete support for groups having multiple types.
> Until that's there, the single type they're allowed must have everything
> in it.

Once I've cleaned up some bugs and made some additional internal
cleanups, adding proper support for multiple group types is one of the
first things I intend to add in.

> >2) The uniqueness of the 'name' attribute is not enforced - two groups
> >with different types can have the same name.
> >
> >I can see that a stem (implemented as a group) might have the same name
> >as a group, but having actual groups be able to have the same name would
> >be confusing and create problem instantiating a group by name, as
> >discussed in 3.

Would you want names to be unique across all group types or just
between stems and all other group types?

> Witrhout looking into the specifics, I know that we arrived at the final
> naming model too late to get it all baked into the 0.5 release. I assume
> this issue is an aspect of that fact.

The 0.5 naming model is subpar, partially due to time constraints and
what not, and should be improved with future releases.

> The only unambiguous way of referring to a group is by
> its guid (value of GrouperGroup.id).

Right. In the current design, the group id is much better handle than
the group name. The name is mutable but not the id.

blair.




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