Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Loris Bennett <>]

On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:42 -0400, Chris Hyzer wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Thanks in advance for all your patience here.  Unfortunately storing the 
> group detail is not implemented yet.  Yes, that is confusing.  This is on 
> my 
> list of to do's, and Im not sure when that will be done.  Hopefully for 
> 1.4, but not sure.  Is it a priority for you?

I have just realized that storing the group detail is quite important
for us after all, even if we do use SQL_GROUP_LIST. The reason is that
for each folder in the hierarchy I would like to generate the following
groups:

        blacklist
        whitelist
        manual (composite: whitelist - blacklist)
        auto (via grouperloader)
        all (composite: auto + manual)

For the two composite groups I would have to be able to set the group
detail, wouldn't I?

Until this feature is available, I suppose that I could use gsh,
although this would be a bit of a hack as I would have to generate a
gsh-script with all the full group names required to populate the whole
hierarchy with the composite groups. 

Xmas isn't too far off, so along with grouperLoaderGroupListPattern
maybe I can add group details to my wishlist.

Thanks

Loris 


> https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+-+Web+Services
> To do's: "persist group detail when saving groups (including attributes)"
> 
> Are you up and running with GSH?  This is an easy way to assign a group 
> type to a group, and add the grouper loader attributes.  Or the UI could be 
> used
> as well.
> 
> https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+-+Web+Services
> 
> I have some GSH commands for making a grouper loader group here:
> 
> https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/GrouperWG/Grouper+-+Loader
> 
> group=getGroups("aStem:aGroup2")
> groupAddType("aStem:aGroup2", "grouperLoader")
> setGroupAttr("aStem:aGroup2", "grouperLoaderDbName", "grouper")
> setGroupAttr("aStem:aGroup2", "grouperLoaderType", "SQL_SIMPLE")
> setGroupAttr("aStem:aGroup2", "grouperLoaderScheduleType", 
> "START_TO_START_INTERVAL")
> setGroupAttr("aStem:aGroup2", "grouperLoaderQuery", "select SUBJECT_ID, 
> SUBJECT_SOURCE_ID from agroup2_v")
> setGroupAttr("aStem:aGroup2", "grouperLoaderIntervalSeconds", "30")
> 
> Kind regards,
> Chris
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Loris Bennett 
> > [mailto:]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 5:50 AM
> > To: Grouper Users Mailing List
> > Subject: [grouper-users] Grouper-WS: Problem saving group type and
> > retrieving group details
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to create a group via the web services interface which is
> > of
> > the type "groupLoader" (which I have already set up via gsh).
> >
> > Should I be able to set the type by using setTypeName from
> > WsGroupDetail
> > and then setDetail from WsGroup? The group is created, but the type
> > name
> > information seems to be ignored. I was expecting that the box for the
> > type groupLoader would be ticked.
> >
> > I thought perhaps I was making some error in specifying the type name,
> > but I also cannot retrieve the list of name types for an existing
> > group.
> > Although I use setIncludeGroupDetail("T"), localDetail in the results
> > is
> > null.
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Loris
> > --
> > Dr. Loris Bennett
> > Computer Centre
> > Freie Universität Berlin
> > Berlin, Germany
>