Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

Cant we just have a group.addPreviousName(name) [which currently replaces the 
current one] and group.deletePreviousName(name)?  if someone tries to use a 
previous name which is removed, then they just add it back.  If it is a 
question as to whether they know what the name is, cant they look in the logs 
to see where the error is occurring?  And yes, I think we can assume people 
will use auditing, and if they don't want to, we don't need to code around it.

These methods can be callable by GSH, and I can expose them via WS and client 
fairly easily with the save group service (in the detail portion)

Thanks,
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shilen Patel 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:56 AM
> To: Tom Zeller
> Cc: Grouper Dev
> Subject: Re: [grouper-dev] findByName
> 
> Based on what I was hearing in previous discussions, this didn't seem
> to be very important.  Even though people might stop using the
> previous name, having it remain in the system might not do any harm.
> However, we can add the option to remove it if you think it would be
> useful.  But there may be more to consider.
> 
> So say if somebody removes a previous name then realizes that it's
> still being used and so the user wants to add the previous name back.
> How does that get handled?
> 
> One way might be to always populate the previous_name column but also
> have another column (previous_name_searchable) that determines if the
> group can actually be found using the previous name.   The new column
> can be turned on and off by admins of the group.  But if our future
> method of doing multi-valued attributes won't be able to handle this,
> then we might need a separate table for this data after all.
> 
> Another way might be to let admins of a group add back previous names
> based on audit data if that information is easy to query.  But
> everyone might not be using audit.
> 
> Perhaps we just give the user a warning saying that once you remove
> the previous name, you cannot add it back (unless you go directly into
> the database of course).
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- Shilen
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 18, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Tom Zeller wrote:
> 
> > Are we also providing a method to remove previous name(s) ?
> >
> > TomZ