Grouper Developers Forum

[Colin Hudler <>]

On 06/25/2009 03:00 PM, Chris Hyzer wrote:
> Im not sure I understand why you would use this hook and not 
> membershipPostCommitInsert and membershipPostCommitDelete?

Those would save me trouble, thanks.  I thought I would do something 
else with the set of memberships, but that turned out to not be true.

> Also, if notifications / change log existed in 2.4, you would use that right?

It is very likely.

> > This hook notifies a udp listener of membership changes.  The listener
> > then takes action, in this case, updating an LDAP database.
> >
> > I registered two hooks.
> >
> > membershipPostCommitRemoveMember
> > membershipPostCommitAddMember
> >
> > I could not easily predict when the hooks would fire, so it is their
> > job
> > to filter the event before notifying.  Please forgive this crude code
> > fragment, but I think it illustrates what I am doing:
> >
> > Set memberships = postCommitBeanThread.getMembershipEffectiveSaves();
> > memberships.addAll(postCommitBeanThread.getMembershipImmediateSaves());
> > Iterator memberator = memberships.iterator();
> > while (memberator.hasNext())  {
> >     Membership membership = (Membership) memberator.next();
> >     String listName = membership.getListName();
> >     if (!listName.equals("members")) { memberator.next(); continue; }
> >     // Proceed to process this event...
> >
> >
> > This works well so far.