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["GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>]

The attached tar, if extracted in the grouper-ui folder and the UI rebuilt, 
makes available a /grouper/exportXml.do action. This presents a form with 
various options which is effectively an interface onto the current Grouper 
Xml export functionality. Be aware that you could export your whole 
repository - which you probably don't want to do, so experiment in a stem 
with relatively few children first...

I've thought about doing something like this in the past, but I've done it 
now just to (hopefully) help discussions around webservices. The feature is 
REST like, but I'm not particularly advocating we use this approach or the 
resulting format. This feature may be useful when talking about formats, 
range of options, whether there should be a relationship between current 
Xml import/export functionality and webservices, etc.

The underlying XmlExporter class uses the Grouper API, so the 
responsiveness of the new action may reflect what we can expect from other 
webservice approaches - though I haven't done any profiling to see if there 
is any extra overhead due to this approach.

Gary

--On 10 December 2007 02:54 -0500 Chris Hyzer 
<>
 wrote:

> I did a simple web services prototype.  The details are here:
>
> https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/WS+-+Proof+of+Con
> cept+2007-10-2007
>
> The original Grouper web services page is here, with updated issues and
> items at bottom.
> https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+-+Web+Ser
> vices
>
> Please give me any feedback.  I will continue to work on it.  Hopefully
> we can discuss it at the next dev call.
>
> > As you mention doing a simple search for subjects it would be worth
> > taking into account the 1.0 Subject API. It loses 'type' as a first class
>
> Gary, thanks for the head's up.  At this point I will just call the same
> methods that the UI calls, so if we fix the UI with the proper Subject
> API, the web services will probably be fixed also.  But lets discuss this
> task a the next call to make sure the order of operations is optimal.
>
> Kind regards,
> Chris
>
> --On 07 December 2007 03:11 -0500 Chris Hyzer 
> <>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey grouper-devs,
> >
> >
> >
> > I added information to the wiki based on emails and discussions we
> > have had recently.  Note that not everything is there, only things
> > that seemed like they had some consensus.  Let me know of additions
> > you would like to see, or feel free to add them yourself.
> >
> >
> >
> > https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+-+Web+
> > Ser
> > vices
> >
> >
> >
> > I am a grouper team member working on web services, fyi.  So expect
> > more communications about web services in the next few weeks/months.
> >
> >
> >
> > I will be building a prototype in Axis to do a simple Soap web service
> > (e.g. simple search for a subject).  Then I would like to make a Rest
> > version of the same logic.  Let me know if you have any advice or
> > concerns.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Chris



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GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing

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