Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

Hey,

I know we decided what to do in the meeting, I think if we tweak it a little 
bit it will be more consistent...

When we say that GroupFinder.findByName() will work for current names or 
previous names, what we really mean, is that that underlying GroupDAO 
interface's method "findByName(name)" will find by names or previous names... 
 and if that is the case, then there is one other method: 
GroupDAO.findAllByApproximateName() which should also work for names or 
previous names.  I only mention because this method is exposed to WS through 
the group finder, and I think it would be weird for a 
FIND_BY_GROUP_NAME_EXACT (which uses findByName()) to work for previous 
names, and not FIND_BY_GROUP_NAME_APPROXIMATE...  I assume this will not be 
hard to tweak the query...

Again, we can add more finders in the group search WS and the GroupDAO for 
the previous names, current names, approximate previous names, approximate 
current name...

Btw, Shilen you mentioned group.foundByOldName()... if its ok can we make it 
a javabean property so it can be used by EL on the UI easier?  i.e. 
group.isFoundByOldName().  Is that going to be hard to manage since it is a 
boolean field and the Group object might come from a cache somewhere or be 
cloned or something?  We can scratch that since it seems like it might not 
always be accurate...  I think the caller can figure out if it is found by 
name or old name by comparing the result with search criteria...

Thanks,
Chris