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[Shilen Patel <>]

OK sounds good.

Thanks!

-- Shilen

On 4/15/10 4:26 PM, Chris Hyzer wrote:
> 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 
> [mailto:]
> 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
> >
> >
> >      
>