Grouper Developers Forum

[Jim Fox <>]

> 1.       LDAP vs SQL:   SQL can select 1000 subjects in 10 queries.  If LDAP 
> can do that, lets do it.  If not, lets not.  Note that in optimizing
> the Grouper UI performance problems, I agree with Gary that there is a lot of 
> value in caching subjects, I will look into this as well. 

I was just noting that ldap doesn't have any sorting capability, and its 
syntax is a bit awkward for lists of ids.  But I am going to investigate the 
efficiency or serial requests versus batched ones.


> 3.       What features grouper should have:  grouper should have a way to 
> return a page of members sorted by name or description of a group of
> small or medium size.  We do that in the grouper UI, and we have a way to do 
> that in the API. We should add to WS, and we should make it more
> efficient if we can (in SQL sources) so we can increase the limit of where it 
> is available

As log as the sorting is option I agree that it is a good improvement.

What would really help me though is to get the members of a group sorted by SubjectId.  
maybe "getMembersSorted()".  Right now I have to use Collections sort.  A 
sort in the database would be quicker.

Jim