Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

> 
> Chris,
> 
> I checked out HEAD the other day to start and fix some issues - and my
> groups disappeared! - the name any way. The UI wraps groups with a Map
> and
> assumes that group name, extension, display_name, display_extension,
> description are attributes. I can 'fix' the UI code, but first wanted
> to
> check that this was intentional - it might break other people's code as
> well. We could, for example, allow read access through attributes but
> not
> allow updates through setAttribute (I don't know if that used to work
> for
> the naming attributes?)
> 
> Gary
> 

Yes, this is true, either way is fine with me.  Probably better to be 
backwards compatible, or at least have a switch in grouper.properties that 
will allow it (if we want to deprecate).

Regards,
Chris