Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Shilen Patel <>]

Hi Peter,

Are you using Grouper 1.6?  If so, as you've noticed, hooks don't fire 
for effective memberships.

It sounds like you basically want to know when a flattened membership is 
added or deleted.  Is that right?  A flattened membership is added the 
first time a group gets a member whether it's direct or indirect.  A 
flattened membership is removed when a group no longer has a member 
where the member previously could have been direct or indirect.

You can get flattened notifications using the change log by directly 
querying the change log table, implementing a change log consumer in 
Java, or using the ESB connector.  The change log also includes 
immediate membership changes.  The flattened ones have a 
membershipType=flattened.

Thanks!

-- Shilen


On 1/21/11 4:31 PM, Peter DiCamillo wrote:
> I'd like to use the hooks mechanism in Grouper to get a notification
> when the effective membership of a group changes.  I've done some
> experimenting with hooks, and understand how to set them up.  However,
> when I add or remove group members, the only notifications I've been
> able to get are for the immediate group that was modified, not other
> groups which include the modified group.
>
> Is there a way to do this?  If so, could you describe it at a high
> level?  I don't necessarily have to use hooks, if Grouper provides an
> alternative mechanism.  The requirement is that I can run my own code
> when the effective membership of any group changes.  The use case is for
> real-time provisioning.
>
> Peter
>