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[Rob Urquhart <>]

Thanks Chris! Setting the attributes in the group detail and doing saveGroup 
works.

Rob

On 2011-04-01, at 11:27 AM, Chris Hyzer wrote:

> Right, if you do a savegroup it will work...
> 
> But another thing is that the loader has to be restarted to pickup changes, 
> though there is a jira request to fix that at some point.  You could 
> restart your loader daily or something in the meantime...
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Urquhart 
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> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 2:26 PM
> To: Chris Hyzer
> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Setting attributes via soap client
> 
> Oh, I see. So, even if I am able to set the attributes using the new 
> attribute framework, the loader may not process that group?
> 
> Rob
> 
> On 2011-04-01, at 11:00 AM, Chris Hyzer wrote:
> 
>> That's what Im saying about the web service you are calling is the new 
>> attribute framework, but the gsh call (and what I think is the only thing 
>> the loader runs off of) is the old attribute framework.  :)
>> 
>> I think you need to call a GroupSave web service call, and in the group 
>> detail, you can set the type of the loader, and set attribute names and 
>> values...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rob Urquhart 
>> [mailto:]
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>> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 1:55 PM
>> To: Chris Hyzer; 
>> 
>> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Setting attributes via soap client
>> 
>> Hi Chris. Thanks for your response.
>> I did see that in the documentation and I am specifying all the "unused" 
>> params as empty strings. The soap request that gets generated looks right 
>> to me. (See attached).
>> However, I think the problem may be that my db didn't get set up properly. 
>> The Hib3AttributeDefNameDAO.findByNameSecure method which throws the 
>> AttributeDefNotFoundException is doing a search on the AttributeDefName 
>> entity, but the grouper_attribute_def_name table is empty. Oddly, this 
>> doesn't affect adding attributes via gsh. For example, 
>> setGroupAttr("robert:testGroup1","grouperLoaderDbName", "grouper") works 
>> fine. 
>> Do I need to rerun the db setup?
>> 
>> Rob
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