Grouper Developers Forum

[blair christensen <>]

On 2005.05.26 15:07, Tom Barton wrote:
> Names are friendly to search on, but they can change and even be 
> reassigned to different groups. If an app needs to store an identifier 
> for a group, we should provide it with the guid.

Left unmentioned was that Subject objects have both ids and names
attached to them.  Regardless of whether one retrieved a group Subject
by name or id, I had intended to map the guid to the subject ID and the
group name to the Subject name.

For now I'll plan on putting in code that will (potentially) try
loading groups by both id and name.  This can be adjusted if necessary.

> Do the above search methods enable an app to search by group name and 
> subsequently obtain the guid?

Yes.  

> Probably not, but that reminds me of my interest in somehow having 
> signet incorporate dynamically determined scoping hierarchies. Maybe an 
> element of a scoping hierarchy can be a type of subject?

What do you have in mind with "dynamically determined scoping hierarchies"?