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[Chris Hyzer <>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin van Es 
> [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:48 AM
> To: GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing; Grouper Users Mailing
> List
> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] setting Subject attributes
> 
> Hi Gary,
> 
> Again, thx a lot for your explanation to a Grouper newby ;)
> 
> On Thursday 05 February 2009 14:24:47 you wrote:
> > not even  for internal subjects.
> >
> > You can set:
> >
> > # To change the internal names for GrouperAll and GrouperSystem
> > # uncomment and change. Review UI nav.properties to ensure
> consistency
> 
> I meant "g:isa" (example) subjects, not the GrouperSystem account.
> 
> > The UI, through resources/grouper/media.properties, allows you to
> configure
> > attributes to display - depending on the Source id:
> >
> > # Provides backwards compatability - it was assumed that all Subjects
> woud
> > have a 'description' attribute
> > subject.display.default=description
> 
> But then I assume that 'description' or 'name' will be retrieved from
> subjectattributes, which are not set by addSubject() to begin with.
> I guess adding a 'description' attribute to subjectattributes for the
> added
> subject by addSubject() would fix this "beginners problem" and would be
> a
> logical thing to do, given the apparent "testing" character of
> addSubject()
> you referred to.

To add an attribute via GSH

gsh 0% attr = new RegistrySubjectAttribute();
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.RegistrySubjectAttribute: 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.RegistrySubjectAttribute@d23ad
gsh 2% attr.setSubjectId("hawi");
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.RegistrySubjectAttribute: 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.RegistrySubjectAttribute@2984376c
gsh 3% attr.setValue("This is my description");
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.RegistrySubjectAttribute: 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.RegistrySubjectAttribute@7f1767c8
gsh 4% attr.setSearchValue("this is my description");
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.RegistrySubjectAttribute: 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.RegistrySubjectAttribute@7f1767c8
gsh 6% attr.setName("descriptionAttr");
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.RegistrySubjectAttribute: 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.RegistrySubjectAttribute@ec9016e7
gsh 7% HibernateSession.byObjectStatic().saveOrUpdate(attr);
gsh 8%

If you want to add someone in one command, add this method to the 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.app.gsh.addSubject class:

  /**
   * Add 
{@link
 RegistrySubject} to Groups Registry.
   * <p/>
   * @param   i           BeanShell interpreter.
   * @param   stack       BeanShell call stack.
   * @param   id          Subject <i>id</i>.
   * @param   type        Subject <i>type</i>.
   * @param   name        Subject <i>name</i>.
   * @param description subject description
   * @return  Added 
{@link
 RegistrySubject}.
   * @throws  GrouperShellException
   * @since   0.0.1
   */
  public static RegistrySubject invoke(
      Interpreter i, CallStack stack, String id, String type, String name, 
String description) 
      throws  GrouperShellException {
    GrouperShell.setOurCommand(i, true);
    try {
      RegistrySubject registrySubject = RegistrySubject.add( 
GrouperShell.getSession(i), id, type, name );
      RegistrySubjectAttribute registrySubjectAttribute = new 
RegistrySubjectAttribute();
      registrySubjectAttribute.setName("description");
      registrySubjectAttribute.setSearchValue(description.toLowerCase());
      registrySubjectAttribute.setSubjectId(id);
      registrySubjectAttribute.setValue(description);
      
HibernateSession.byObjectStatic().saveOrUpdate(registrySubjectAttribute);
      return registrySubject;
    }
    catch (GrouperException eG)                 { 
      GrouperShell.error(i, eG);
    }
    catch (InsufficientPrivilegeException eIP)  {
      GrouperShell.error(i, eIP);
    }
    return null;
  }


Then invoke do an "ant dist" from grouper_home, and call:

gsh 2% addSubject("aaaId", "person", "My name", "This is my description");
hibernatesubject: id='aaaId' type='person' name='My name'

> 
> If so, then that would be my next feature request. Any developer
> listening? ;)
> 
> Regards,
> Martin