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[Richard James <>]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the pointers, it does appear that this is being caused by 
something misbehaving at our end. We were originally concentrating on 
submitting requests using a PHP script which makes use of the WSO2 web 
services framework, and it was via this method that the incorrect response 
codes were being returned. I have since sent SOAP requests through to the 
groupSaveLite WS via other methods, including a web service component within 
Talend, and we are able to save/update a group and are provided with a 
success response as required. 

So it appears there is something not quite right in our setup for the web 
services framework, which is possibly making it submit our requests twice. 
But from a Grouper perspective everything is working as it should be :)

Thanks again

Richard


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Hyzer 
>[mailto:]
>Sent: 25 July 2010 22:03
>To: Richard James; 
>
>Subject: RE: Grouper 1.6 groupSaveLite webservice
>
>This is weird.  I don't get the same results.  Maybe something is
>transmitting twice?  Can you listen on a non-SSL port and use a proxy
>that captures the traffic?  Or check the access logs if apache is
>fronting tomcat?  Here are my requests/responses on the latest 1.6
>branch which I think should behave the same way in this regard as 1.6.0.
>Note below: SUCCESS_INSERTED and SUCCESS_UPDATED.
>
>Btw, the soap and rest (which client uses) runs the same logic, so if
>the client works for you, then it seems like it is something with your
>soap client?   Not sure...  if you are what exact network architecture
>do you have?
>
>Thanks,
>Chris
>
>########################
>## GROUP INSERT
>########################
>
><?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-
>envelope">
>  <soapenv:Body>
>    <ns1:groupSaveLite
>      xmlns:ns1="http://soap.ws.grouper.middleware.internet2.edu/xsd";>
>      <ns1:clientVersion>v1_6_000</ns1:clientVersion>
>      <ns1:groupLookupUuid></ns1:groupLookupUuid>
>      <ns1:groupLookupName>aGroup:test</ns1:groupLookupName>
>      <ns1:groupUuid></ns1:groupUuid>
>      <ns1:groupName>aStem:test</ns1:groupName>
>      <ns1:displayExtension>the test group</ns1:displayExtension>
>      <ns1:description>test group</ns1:description>
>      <ns1:saveMode>INSERT</ns1:saveMode>
>      <ns1:actAsSubjectId>GrouperSystem</ns1:actAsSubjectId>
>      <ns1:actAsSubjectSourceId></ns1:actAsSubjectSourceId>
>      <ns1:actAsSubjectIdentifier></ns1:actAsSubjectIdentifier>
>      <ns1:includeGroupDetail>F</ns1:includeGroupDetail>
>    </ns1:groupSaveLite>
>  </soapenv:Body>
></soapenv:Envelope>
>
>
><?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-
>envelope">
>  <soapenv:Body>
>    <ns:groupSaveLiteResponse
>      xmlns:ns="http://soap.ws.grouper.middleware.internet2.edu/xsd";>
>      <ns:return
>
>type="edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.soap.WsGroupSaveLiteResult">
>        <ns:responseMetadata
>
>type="edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.soap.WsResponseMeta">
>          <ns:millis>296</ns:millis>
>          <ns:resultWarnings
>xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>            xsi:nil="true" />
>          <ns:serverVersion>1.6.1</ns:serverVersion>
>        </ns:responseMetadata>
>        <ns:resultMetadata
>          type="edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.soap.WsResultMeta">
>          <ns:params xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
>instance"
>            xsi:nil="true" />
>          <ns:resultCode>SUCCESS_INSERTED</ns:resultCode>
>          <ns:resultCode2 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
>instance"
>            xsi:nil="true" />
>          <ns:resultMessage>Success for: clientVersion: 1.6.0,
>            wsGroupToSaves: Array size: 1: [0]: WsGroupToSave[
>            wsGroupLookup=WsGroupLookup[uuid=,groupName=aGroup:test],
>            wsGroup=WsGroup[displayExtension=the test
>group,description=test
>            group,name=aStem:test,uuid=],saveMo...
>            , actAsSubject:
>
>WsSubjectLookup[subjectId=GrouperSystem,subjectIdentifier=,subjectSource
>Id=],
>            txType: NONE, paramNames:
>            , params: null</ns:resultMessage>
>          <ns:success>T</ns:success>
>        </ns:resultMetadata>
>        <ns:wsGroup
>type="edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.soap.WsGroup">
>          <ns:description>test group</ns:description>
>          <ns:detail xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
>instance"
>            xsi:nil="true" />
>          <ns:displayExtension>the test group</ns:displayExtension>
>          <ns:displayName>aStem:the test group</ns:displayName>
>          <ns:extension>test</ns:extension>
>          <ns:name>aStem:test</ns:name>
>          <ns:uuid>0332e6f0fb744961ab30080c231ac056</ns:uuid>
>        </ns:wsGroup>
>      </ns:return>
>    </ns:groupSaveLiteResponse>
>  </soapenv:Body>
></soapenv:Envelope>
>
>########################
>## GROUP UPDATE
>########################
>
><?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-
>envelope">
>  <soapenv:Body>
>    <ns1:groupSaveLite
>      xmlns:ns1="http://soap.ws.grouper.middleware.internet2.edu/xsd";>
>      <ns1:clientVersion>v1_6_000</ns1:clientVersion>
>      <ns1:groupLookupUuid></ns1:groupLookupUuid>
>      <ns1:groupLookupName>aStem:test</ns1:groupLookupName>
>      <ns1:groupUuid></ns1:groupUuid>
>      <ns1:groupName>aStem:test</ns1:groupName>
>      <ns1:displayExtension>the test group</ns1:displayExtension>
>      <ns1:description>new description</ns1:description>
>      <ns1:saveMode>UPDATE</ns1:saveMode>
>      <ns1:actAsSubjectId>GrouperSystem</ns1:actAsSubjectId>
>      <ns1:actAsSubjectSourceId></ns1:actAsSubjectSourceId>
>      <ns1:actAsSubjectIdentifier></ns1:actAsSubjectIdentifier>
>      <ns1:includeGroupDetail>F</ns1:includeGroupDetail>
>    </ns1:groupSaveLite>
>  </soapenv:Body>
></soapenv:Envelope>
>
>
>
><?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
><soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-
>envelope">
>  <soapenv:Body>
>    <ns:groupSaveLiteResponse
>      xmlns:ns="http://soap.ws.grouper.middleware.internet2.edu/xsd";>
>      <ns:return
>
>type="edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.soap.WsGroupSaveLiteResult">
>        <ns:responseMetadata
>
>type="edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.soap.WsResponseMeta">
>          <ns:millis>78</ns:millis>
>          <ns:resultWarnings
>xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>            xsi:nil="true" />
>          <ns:serverVersion>1.6.1</ns:serverVersion>
>        </ns:responseMetadata>
>        <ns:resultMetadata
>          type="edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.soap.WsResultMeta">
>          <ns:params xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
>instance"
>            xsi:nil="true" />
>          <ns:resultCode>SUCCESS_UPDATED</ns:resultCode>
>          <ns:resultCode2 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
>instance"
>            xsi:nil="true" />
>          <ns:resultMessage>Success for: clientVersion: 1.6.0,
>            wsGroupToSaves: Array size: 1: [0]: WsGroupToSave[
>            wsGroupLookup=WsGroupLookup[uuid=,groupName=aStem:test],
>            wsGroup=WsGroup[displayExtension=the test
>group,description=new
>            description,name=aStem:test,uuid=],sa...
>            , actAsSubject:
>
>WsSubjectLookup[subjectId=GrouperSystem,subjectIdentifier=,subjectSource
>Id=],
>            txType: NONE, paramNames:
>            , params: null</ns:resultMessage>
>          <ns:success>T</ns:success>
>        </ns:resultMetadata>
>        <ns:wsGroup
>type="edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.soap.WsGroup">
>          <ns:description>new description</ns:description>
>          <ns:detail xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-
>instance"
>            xsi:nil="true" />
>          <ns:displayExtension>the test group</ns:displayExtension>
>          <ns:displayName>aStem:the test group</ns:displayName>
>          <ns:extension>test</ns:extension>
>          <ns:name>aStem:test</ns:name>
>          <ns:uuid>0332e6f0fb744961ab30080c231ac056</ns:uuid>
>        </ns:wsGroup>
>      </ns:return>
>    </ns:groupSaveLiteResponse>
>  </soapenv:Body>
></soapenv:Envelope>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: 
>
> [
>]
> On Behalf Of Richard James
>Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 10:31 AM
>To: 
>
>Subject: [grouper-users] Grouper 1.6 groupSaveLite webservice
>
>Hi All,
>
>First of all just want to say great work on the latest version of
>Grouper, we are looking forward to rolling out some of the new features.
>
>We've came across a minor issue which we are trying to work out the
>cause for. We have successfully deployed Grouper 1.6 in a test
>environment, and have been testing out the web services in particular
>the groupSaveLite web service. When we come to create a new group with
>the attached SOAP request, the result code states that the
>GROUP_ALREADY_EXISTS. Before calling the web service we made sure that a
>group with the same name did not exist. I'm not sure if it is trying to
>action the insert twice or if the result code is just being interpreted
>incorrectly. Just as a follow up test I deployed the grouper client on
>another machine, and invoked the method from there, it successfully
>created the new group and returned a correct result code.
>
>A similar behaviour exists when trying to update groups details, for
>example if we try to update the description for a newly created group,
>it returns SUCCESS_NO_CHANGES_NEEDED, even though it does update the
>description.
>
>I'm not sure if this is a problem with our setup or if it's something
>within the code which is misinterpreting the result codes.
>
>This is just a minor issue but thought I'd best put it out there.
>
>I've attached the SOAP requests and return results for the insert and
>updates just for reference.
>
>Regards
>
>Richard James
>ISS Middleware Team
>Newcastle University
>