Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

Sorry, there is a lot going on here.  I was referring to when extension, 
description, name, displayName, displayExtension are in the groups table, not 
in the attributes table:

https://bugs.internet2.edu/jira/browse/GRP-201

But yes the way attributes work is under discussion too, we need to get 
auditing done before we finalize how that will work and see which release it 
will be in...

Kind regards,
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Barton 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 12:39 PM
> To: Chris Hyzer
> Cc: 
> ;
>  Grouper Dev
> Subject: Re: [grouper-dev] dbVersionDifferentFields and
> getAttributeOrNull interraction
> 
> Chris Hyzer wrote:
> > that will be the 1.5 way when they aren't attributes anymore
> 
> Just to clarify: we're not removing support for attributes of groups,
> but we will be substantially improving how attributes work in grouper,
> including support for a wider variety (and potentially extensible set)
> of attribute types and associating attributes with objects other than
> groups.
> 
> So I bet Chris meant "since in 1.5 there will be a new way to deal with
> new-style attributes, that old-fashioned approach will change". Right
> Chris? :-)
> 
> Tom