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[Chris Hyzer <>]

Hey,

 

In web services, in a hasMember call, you pass in a SubjectFinder.  And in the SubjectFinder you specify a subject Id or a subject Identifier, and for either you can also optionally specify a source.

 

At Penn we have the situation where new Penn People try to use an app, and the hourly job that copies their user data to Grouper hasn’t run yet, so there is a subject not found exception error thrown from web services.  However, in LDAP I believe it is just returned as a “false” when the person is not in the system.  I think a solution would be to have a custom source where if a person isn’t found, it looks in the data of record, and if there, adds them to the grouper source table.  Another solution is to have the “hasMember” web service return a SUCCESS-false when the subject is not found, since the subject is not in the group if it is not found.  I could add an option so that subjectNotFound is an error if we like.

 

Do other people want this behavior?

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

Ps. We have a massaged description field that is searchable that merges all the various names and affiliations, which is why we don’t just go to the system of record and do the hourly copy…