Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Martin van Es <>]

Hi Chris,

Would asking for a container groupLookup be too much asked?
Comma separated list would, of course work as well... the groupLookup would 
just be more in harmony with the rest of the methods I think?

Regards,
Martin

On Thursday 05 March 2009 15:24:33 Chris Hyzer wrote:
> Right now you are stuck with either multiple calls to findGroups, or a
> bunch of or's.  An easy way to accommodate this would be a param accepted
> in findGroups which allows comma separated group names...  would that work
> for you?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin van Es 
> > [mailto:]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 6:21 AM
> > To: Grouper Users Mailing List
> > Subject: [grouper-users] Find batches of exact groups
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to know if there's a smart/cheap way to get group details of
> > many
> > groups in one WS call? The only solution I've found so far is
> > findGroups, but
> > that does not scale very well (I can retrieve details for 2 OR'ed
> > groups, but
> > after that, the nested queries get ugly and hard to generate, provided
> > that
> > would work?). The other (expensive) solution is a simple
> > FIND_BY_GROUP_NAME_EXACT findGroup call for every path.
> >
> > In short: I have multiple group ID-paths (invitations) and need the
> > matching
> > displayExtensions (and maybe attributes) for pretty output.
> >
> > I was thinking in the lines of the getGroups array of subjectLookups-
> > like
> > interface, for findGroups.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Martin