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[Keith Hazelton <>]

On Aug 5, 2012, at 16:30:44, Chris Hyzer wrote:

> Oh, sorry, misunderstood the question.  Yes, you could implement a bamboo 
> subject adapter.  Or we could try to make a generic REST one, though that 
> seems like more effort...
> 
> I would start by seeing what you need the implement with interface Source 
> (or it is easier to extend BaseSourceAdapter), and see what restful things 
> you can do with bamboo and map and design it.  

I'll start that journey.

> Then someone needs to code it, I can help if you like...

That's music to my ears, but I'll only hum it to myself until I get a better 
idea of what's involved and how to spec it.

    Thanks mucho,   --KeithH

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> Thanks,
> Chris
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> Subject: Re: [grouper-users] Subject source exposed as RESTful 
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> Thanks, Chris,
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> In the typical case, as far as I understand it, the subject source is meant 
> to be accessible from Grouper via JDBC or JNDI connectors as configured in 
> sources.xml.
> 
> The challenge in the Bamboo case is that the people we want to be able to 
> put in groups are only accessible via Bamboo RESTful queries. There's some 
> missing glue it would seem.  Or maybe I'm still just missing a crucial clue.
> 
>      --Keith
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> On Aug 5, 2012, at 15:01:18, Chris Hyzer wrote:
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>> You could use the Grouper WS get subject operation, or ldap, but I would 
>> try not to load the subject API or grouper API into bamboo, but it is also 
>> an option and is probably doable.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Chris
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>> Subject: [grouper-users] Subject source exposed as RESTful interface--Is 
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>> For Project Bamboo, subjects (people) are exposed exclusively via RESTful 
>> calls. I'm wondering whether the Grouper subject adapter is sufficiently 
>> generic to be able to handle this via configuration.  If not, am I looking 
>> at some kind of custom code? If so, where would you suggest I start? What 
>> options seem promising?  I find myself wondering if an LDAP server with 
>> dynamic attribute support via plug-ins might work, but who knows?
>> 
>>         --Keith Hazelton
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