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[Keith Hazelton <>]

I want to put an external subject into a Grouper group using the RESTful web 
services. The subject is identified by a Bamboo Person ID, which is just a 
value like
urn:uuid:e700afeb-daee-4d49-99ed-1753127e8985

The Grouper WS documentation on Add Member 
(https://spaces.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Add+Member) has the following 
under "Features"

"You can specify addExternalSubjectIfNotFound to T or F, if this is a search 
by id or identifier, with no source, or the external source, and the subject 
is not found, then add an external subject (if the user is allowed to do 
this)"

I'm using Firefox Poster for a proof of concept, and wondering what to put in 
the request body to set addExternalSubjectIfNotFound to "T".

     Advice welcome,   --Keith

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I made a WAG, tried the following and got errors:
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url: http://arche.metazome.info:8480/grouper-ws/servicesRest/v2_1_000/groups
content type: text/xml
POST
content:
<WsRestAddMemberLiteRequest>
  
<groupName>458930f0-0716-11e2-892e-0800200c9a66:560d5c90-c23e-4e7c-903b-eab046b38cbc:xyz-1</groupName>
  <subjectId>urn:uuid:b386e4fd-38e6-4915-8c11-c9dc00963f3e</subjectId>
  <addExternalSubjectifNotFound>T</addExternalSubjectIfNotFound>
  <actAsSubjectId>GrouperSystem</actAsSubjectId>
</WsRestAddMemberLiteRequest>
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If I omit the line 
<addExternalSubjectifNotFound>T</addExternalSubjectIfNotFound>T</addExternalSubjectIfNotFound>
I get the expected "subject not found" error, since this subject is not 
available via any configured subject adapter

With that line in the request, I get this 500 error:
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<WsRestResultProblem><resultMetadata><resultCode>EXCEPTION</resultCode><resultMessage>Problem
 with request:  uri: /grouper-ws/servicesRest/v2_1_000/groups, method: POST, 
decoded url strings: 0: &apos;v2_1_000&apos;, 1: &apos;groups&apos;,
com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.ConversionException: 
addExternalSubjectifNotFound : addExternalSubjectifNotFound : 
addExternalSubjectifNotFound : addExternalSubjectifNotFound
---- Debugging information ----
message             : addExternalSubjectifNotFound : 
addExternalSubjectifNotFound
cause-exception     : 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.CannotResolveClassException
cause-message       : addExternalSubjectifNotFound : 
addExternalSubjectifNotFound
class               : 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.rest.member.WsRestAddMemberLiteRequest
required-type       : 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.rest.member.WsRestAddMemberLiteRequest
line number         : 4
-------------------------------
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:88)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:75)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convertAnother(TreeUnmarshaller.java:59)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.start(TreeUnmarshaller.java:142)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.unmarshal(AbstractTreeMarshallingStrategy.java:33)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:931)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.unmarshal(XStream.java:917)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.fromXML(XStream.java:861)
        at com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream.fromXML(XStream.java:853)
        at 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.rest.contentType.WsRestRequestContentType$3.parseString(WsRestRequestContentType.java:159)
        at 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.rest.GrouperRestServlet.service(GrouperRestServlet.java:183)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.ws.GrouperServiceJ2ee.doFilter(GrouperServiceJ2ee.java:653)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:563)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:293)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:859)
        at 
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:602)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679)
Caused by: com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.CannotResolveClassException: 
addExternalSubjectifNotFound : addExternalSubjectifNotFound
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.DefaultMapper.realClass(DefaultMapper.java:62)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.DynamicProxyMapper.realClass(DynamicProxyMapper.java:71)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.ClassAliasingMapper.realClass(ClassAliasingMapper.java:86)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.ArrayMapper.realClass(ArrayMapper.java:87)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.MapperWrapper.realClass(MapperWrapper.java:38)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.mapper.CachingMapper.realClass(CachingMapper.java:52)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.AbstractReflectionConverter.determineType(AbstractReflectionConverter.java:318)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.AbstractReflectionConverter.doUnmarshal(AbstractReflectionConverter.java:196)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.converters.reflection.AbstractReflectionConverter.unmarshal(AbstractReflectionConverter.java:150)
        at 
com.thoughtworks.xstream.core.TreeUnmarshaller.convert(TreeUnmarshaller.java:81)
        ... 27 more
</resultMessage><success>F</success></resultMetadata><responseMetadata><resultWarnings></resultWarnings><millis>5</millis><serverVersion>2.1.2</serverVersion></responseMetadata></WsRestResultProblem>
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