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[Gagné Sébastien <>]

Hi,

We ran into a “bug” and that made us realise we might have been wrong about how we thought of alternate IDs in Grouper.

 

First, our problem : I tried to automatically create (via GroupSave) a group with the same Name as another’s group Alternate ID. We thought we would get an error for a duplicate group extension (we have a Group Hook to check that), but we didn’t. Digging around I found that in the GroupSave method, it tries to find if the group already exists, but this method check both the current ID and the alternate ID. In this case a modify is detected, the group isn’t created and my logic based on duplicate group ID is bypassed.

 

So how should alternate group ID be treated ? In this case we wanted to keep a trace of where the group was before, but it seems Alternate IDs should be regarded as a copy of the group.

Is the GroupSave wrong to check the Alternate ID ?

 

Right now I did “set alternate ID = false”, to avoid the problem, but I’ll probably have to change my hook to take into account alternate IDs, that would probably be the best solution (albeit a little heavier processing when mass creating groups…)

 

 

Sébastien Gagné,     | Analyste en informatique

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