Grouper Developers Forum

[Tom Zeller <>]

How about 2 constructor parameters, one for value wildcards and one
for stem scope, for GroupAttributeFilter and GroupAnyAttributeFilter ?
for example :

/**
   * 
{@link
 QueryFilter} that returns groups matching the specified
   * attribute specification.
   * <p>
   * This performs a substring, lowercased query on <i>attribute</i>.
   * </p>
   * @param   attr      Search on this attribute.
   * @param   value     Search for this value.
   * @param   ns        Restrict results to within this stem.
   * @param   wildcards Surround search value with wildcards
   * @param   scope     Stem scope
   */
  public GroupAttributeFilter(String attr, String value, Stem ns,
boolean wildcards, Stem.Scope scope) {

The method overrides for Hib3GroupDAO seem straightforward.

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Chris Hyzer 
<>
 wrote:
> I guess I was thinking that if we didn't have it added automatically, then 
> if you didn't pass one, it would only find groups directly in a stem.  But 
> if you pass in a %, then it will be that stem and all substems.  But I 
> don't want to derail you :)  If you want me to contribute that part I can 
> (will need to join to Stems table and got for a stem_id associated with 
> that group).
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> 
>  
> [mailto:]
>  On Behalf Of Tom Zeller
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 10:26 AM
> To: Chris Hyzer
> Cc: Grouper Dev
> Subject: Re: [grouper-dev] finding groups by attribute value with wildcards
>
> I think the scope still needs the "%", right ?
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Chris Hyzer 
> <>
>  wrote:
>> Sounds good to me, Id vote for an overload with a boolean which specifies 
>> whether percents are added or not (which would be those two, and the stem 
>> scope one)... then we can reuse the logic/query.  But if you disagree, 
>> feel free to make another duplicate method.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: 
>> 
>>  
>> [mailto:]
>>  On Behalf Of Tom Zeller
>> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:44 AM
>> To: Grouper Dev
>> Subject: [grouper-dev] finding groups by attribute value with wildcards
>>
>> I'd like to find groups using a query "... like value" where I can
>> specify wildcards in the value.
>>
>> The Hib3GroupDAO method findAllByApproximateAttr uses "like %value%",
>> and findAllByAttr uses "= value", but what I need is "like value".
>>
>> I don't see such a method, is there one ? I'll offer to do the work,
>> does this sound reasonable ?
>>
>> My use case is that I'm checking our mail namespace for uniqueness. We
>> store email addresses as attributes, e.g. 
>> "",
>>  and I
>> want to find groups based on the mail left-hand-side of the @. The
>> mail right-hand-sides of the @ are variable and dynamic.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> TomZ
>>
>