Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Chris Hyzer <>]

If the group is school:whatever:group1
Is the group id you refer to "group1"
Or is it the uuid?

If it’s the uuid, then grouper generates that for you.

If it is "group1", then you cant have a blank name, so if you set to 
"hooksWillChangeThis" or something, then the hook can look for that name.

You should only need a pre-insert, which can generate the ID, and assign to 
the group.  I don’t think you need a post insert... (you wouldn’t want it 
anyway, you don’t want to rename the group after inserted, you want it 
properly named before the insert)

> 1. Extend the GrouperHooks class

You mean GroupHooks class I assume

Yes on #3, you don’t need #4 to rebuild the grouper.jar...

Chris



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dr. Loris Bennett 
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 9:43 AM
> To: Chris Hyzer
> Subject: Grouper 1.4.0: Using hooks
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Could you give me a little advice on using the hooks mechanism?
>
> I have a Unix /etc/groups file for which I have written a program to
> import it into grouper. I need to create a unique group ID when a group
> is created in Grouper. I envisage using the hooks mechanism for this.
> My
> understanding is that I would have to do the following:
>
> 1. Add a pre-insert hook for groups which generates the ID.
> 2. Add a post-insert hook to add the ID as an attribute to the newly
> created group.
>
> In practice I would
>
> 1. Extend the GrouperHooks class
> 2. Configure the hooks in grouper.properties
> 3. Create a myhooks.jar and add to grouper API custom libs (?)
> 4. Rebuild grouper.jar (?)
>
> Would I be on the right track with this, in particular, with the last
> two points?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Loris
>
>
>
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