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[Chris Hyzer <>]

Also, might want to look at "AttributeHooks" which you can put a hook on 
insert/update/delete on group attributes, and easily see if it is the one you 
want...

Kind regards,
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Hyzer 
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> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:56 AM
> To: 
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>  Grouper Dev
> Subject: RE: [grouper-dev] GroupHooks and Group methods
> 
> Well, the hooks will fire all the time, and in the hook method, you
> compare and see if you want to act.  If so, act, if not, return.
> 
> In the groupHooksBean (given to you by hook method) you can get the
> group, and then you can call dbVersion() on the gruop to get the old
> information, or dbVersionChangeFields() to get the list of attributes
> which have changed...  This will work in the preUpdate, and I believe
> it also works in the postUpdate, though Im not sure...  give it a try.
> If not, let me know exactly what you want to do and I can try to make
> an example.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Chris
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Arnaud Deman 
> > [mailto:]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 11:44 AM
> > To: Grouper Dev
> > Subject: [grouper-dev] GroupHooks and Group methods
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Is it possible to use the hooks to extends only some methods of the
> > Group class ?
> > For instance I would like to perform an action only when the content
> of
> > the field associated to a custom type is modified.
> >
> > I tried to use the methods in the GroupHooks class but I wasn't able
> to
> > find a way to discriminate the modifications.
> >
> > I am working with the 1.4.1 version.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Arnaud.
> >
> >
> >
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