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[Colin Hudler <>]

Thank you, it is clear.  That explains why my hook was firing each time 
I added a stem.  The only strange thing about that is that I was using 
membershipPreAddMember[1], which I thought wouldn't fire on these "not 
high level" adds.  I will report back if I get to the bottom of it.

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On 06/24/2009 03:55 PM, Chris Hyzer wrote:
> Ok, so if you call group.addMember, then the membership high level hook will 
> fire.  If a membership is added due to a group create (add the creator to the 
> admin list, note, this is NOT indirect), then that is not the high level 
> membership add hook... make sense?
>
> > If I do want to hook side effects, should I use the Pre/Post Insert
> > hooks?
>
> Yes.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Colin Hudler 
> > [mailto:]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:49 PM
> > To: 
> >
> > Subject: [grouper-dev] MembershipHooks high vs not high level hooks
> >
> > (feel free to bounce this to -users if it is off base on -dev)
> >
> > In javadoc, many of the hooks have notes
> >
> > "called right after .* (high level, not the side effects)"
> >
> > What are side effects?  Am I right in thinking it is the indirect
> > membership changes?
> >
> > If I do want to hook side effects, should I use the Pre/Post Insert
> > hooks?