Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

> As far as I understand, there are several EhCache controllers for each
> session. For instance, in the method
> AccessResolverFactory.getInstance(...), instances of
> WheelAccessResolver
> and CachingAccessResolver are created, both with their controller (and
> I
> suppose with a file system access to the configuration file). Do you
> think it would be possible to use a unique instance of controller and
> the GrouperSessions' ids as part of the keys ?

Yes, that is possible, we just need to clear out the session specific stuff 
when the session ends.  I added that idea to the jira issue to explore:

https://bugs.internet2.edu/jira/browse/GRP-305


> 
> In fact, initially my problem concerned the version 1.2 of Grouper that
> we are still using here. We use a custom web service to build our
> initial hierarchy of groups, and this problem caused a memory leak and
> after a while a crash. I made a temporary fix by making the cache
> manager static in EhcacheController. It seems to work  but as it is in
> contradiction with the design of Grouper, I wondered if there is a risk
> that I introduced a bug...

If you upgraded to 1.4.2 then that bug is fixed, the cached were not being 
cleared on session end...

Chris