Grouper Developers Forum

[Chris Hyzer <>]

There are 4 new web service operations in Grouper 2.1.  These are to satisfy the use case of centralized permission managements where the resources are dynamic (e.g. in an application securing folders and files, someone could create a new folder or file, and the permission resources need to be created via WS.

 

One new WS operation is for finding attribute definition names (or permission names)

 

https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Find+Attribute+Definition+Names

 

Find attribute definition names based on name, search filter, permission name inheritance, etc.

 

    Search by a list of names or ids

    Search by a search filter

    Search filter can "split scope" like a combobox, where the term is split by whitespace and appended to wildcards in an AND clause.  e.g. "pto permissions" would look for attribute definition names which have the word "pto" and "permissions" somewhere in them

    Case insensitive

    Can search by permission inheritance based on an attribute def name (from permission) and if you want the other attribute def names which inherit directly, directly and indirectly, or which imply this attribute def name (directly, or both)

    Can filter by the types of objects this attribute def name is assignable to, or which type it is

    Can search by the attribute definition (to find all its names)

    Can sort and/or page the results of individual filter types: parent stem, and approximate group name.  Can sort on name, displayName, extension, or displayExtension.

    Returns attribute definition names

    Can actAs another user

 

 

Samples: (click download to see them)

http://anonsvn.internet2.edu/viewvc/viewvc.py/i2mi/trunk/grouper-ws/grouper-ws/doc/samples/findAttributeDefNames/

 

Thanks,

Chris