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[Ken LAI <>]

Yes, I am asking for a subject source which is a web service client.
As in my previous mail, it may be a generic DSML client and map the
seachType in sources.xml to a DSML search request.  Better still, it
will be good if DSML is just a implementation of generic web service
subject source interface.  We can provide our own if we need custom
web service client as subject source.

Regards,
-Ken

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Chris Hyzer 
<>
 wrote:
> Can you please give a spec of what the sources.xml part could look like, 
> and what the inputs and outputs of the web service would be?  And to be 
> clear, are you asking for a subject source which is a web service client?  
> Or also a web service operation in grouper WS which would host subjects?  
> Or both?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ken LAI 
>> [mailto:]
>> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 12:18 AM
>> To: Chris Hyzer
>> Cc: Grouper Users
>> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] web service as source of Subject API
>>
>> I understand the difficulty to make a generic web service to be
>> useful.  I suppose you can consider DSML
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_Service_Markup_Language
>>
>> which is standard and LDAP-based.  My idea is that any generic web
>> service will serve my needs as I can connect it to a ESB and do the
>> message transformation.  The endpoint can be file, jdbc, jndi or
>> another web service.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -Ken
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Chris Hyzer 
>> <>
>> wrote:
>> > There is no plan for that.  We do have plans to discuss exposing some
>> Grouper web service operations to search and potentially manage
>> subjects...
>> >
>> > Anyways, for having a builtin subject source which uses web services,
>> it sounds like it would be difficult to make that generic.  Each web
>> service subject source might have a much different API.  I would just
>> make your own subject source which implements
>> edu.internet2.middleware.subject.Source and acts as a web service
>> client.  If you need help coding this, let me know.  If we find out it
>> is generic and useful to people, we can add it in.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Chris
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Ken LAI 
>> >> [mailto:]
>> >> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 10:27 PM
>> >> To: Grouper Users
>> >> Subject: [grouper-users] web service as source of Subject API
>> >>
>> >> Currently, the source of Subject API only supports Jdbc and Jndi.
>> Do
>> >> you have any plan to add web service as one source of Subject API?
>> >> This gives more flexibility of various sources which only interfaces
>> >> with web service.
>> >>
>> >> -Ken
>> >
>