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[Gagné Sébastien <>]

Hi,

Using the Grouper API, I was wondering if a  « find all membership based on an attribute » helper method existed somewhere ? Similar to the GroupFinder.findAllByAttribute() but in MembershipFinder where it would return all the membership where attribute X is assigned to it (no matter which value is assigned). I think a SQL/Hibernate query might do the job, but maybe it could be better supported.

 

What would happen if I’m using an attribute without a value (as in a flag, where I will act differently if that attribute is assigned to a membership but where I don’t care if it has a value) ? I see that the value is mandatory in the GroupFinder, but I was able in the Lite UI to create an attribute that requires no value. I recall reading about two types of attributes (as in the old attributes are used for the SQL Loader and the new attributes are used in the LDAP Loader). I see two set of tables in the DB Attributes and Attribute_[assign|def| etc]. I think GroupFinder.findAllByAttribute is using the old Attributes.

 

How will this evolve ? Will the old attributes be phased out ? What happens to those helper methods ?

 

Thanks

 

 

Sébastien Gagné,     | Analyste en informatique

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