Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

I don't know, lately Ive taken the cascade delete approach... since it is 
hard to know what to do if you want to change a role to a group, it fails 
with an exception that says some permission is assigned somewhere, but its 
difficult or tedious to figure out how to delete it.  So I would say just 
delete cascade everything.  Same as if you delete a group, right?

Thanks,
Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Shilen Patel 
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Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 4:21 PM
To: Chris Hyzer
Cc: Grouper Dev
Subject: Re: [grouper-dev] converting group to role?

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
>
>