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RE: [grouper-dev] move built in group attributes to the groups table


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  • From: Chris Hyzer <>
  • To: "GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing" <>, "" <>
  • Subject: RE: [grouper-dev] move built in group attributes to the groups table
  • Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:01:16 -0500
  • Accept-language: en-US
  • Acceptlanguage: en-US


>
> 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



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