Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Peter DiCamillo <>]

We're using a provisioning model with Grouper where a custom change log 
consumer sends messages to endpoints for (nearly) real-time 
provisioning. For example, we have an endpoint for Google that will 
update Google group membership in response to messages for a 
corresponding Grouper group. At this point we're starting to work on 
going beyond provisioning membership. We're using group attributes to 
provision other information about a target group. For example, we have a 
group attribute googleGroupName that specifies the name for the 
corresponding Google group. When one of those attributes is added, 
deleted, or changed, we'd like to send a corresponding message to the 
endpoint. There are change log events for addAttributeAssignValue and 
deleteAttributeAssignValue. But when an attribute value is changed, I'd 
like to send the endpoints an update message with the old and new 
values. I don't seen any change log event for that purpose, and when I 
make a change, I get a delete event followed by a separate add event. 
Could Grouper be enhanced to include the option of generating a single 
update event, instead of separate add and delete events? That would 
allow us to use a straightforward implementation, instead of trying to 
determine when add and delete events actually represent an update.

Peter