Grouper Developers Forum

[Shilen Patel <>]

Cool.  Yes, I'll take care of it for 1.6.

How about in the opposite direction (role -> group)?  Should we allow 
that or not and if we allow it, should we fail under some circumstances 
like if the role has a permission or if the role is part of another role 
set?

Thanks!

-- Shilen


On 4/15/10 4:05 PM, Chris Hyzer wrote:
> Yes, we should do this.  Sorry about that.  So we changed the API earlier so that setters don't 
> do anything, but when you call "store()", or "save()" or something, that is 
> what sends the sql.  So can that method check to see if the object has changed and add the 
> rolesets?  Do you want to do this or do you want me to?  :)
>
> Thanks!
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shilen Patel 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 2:47 PM
> To: Grouper Dev
> Subject: [grouper-dev] converting group to role?
>
> Hey,
>
> I'm wondering if it should be possible to convert a group to a role.  If
> you set Group.setTypeOfGroup(TypeOfGroup.role), that doesn't add the
> role sets.  Should that add the role set(s), or should there be another
> way to convert a group to a role, or is there actually another way, or
> should it not be possible..?
>
> I basically mistakenly added a group instead of a role and then added
> memberships and access privileges and finally when I was about to add
> permissions, I realized my mistake.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Shilen
>
>