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[Peter DiCamillo <>]

Thanks, it's GRP-1218, and it includes that additional information.

Peter

On 10/30/15 5:52 PM, Chris Hyzer wrote:
> Can you please open a jira for this and include how urgent it is to 
> implement.  Also please confirm that you are referring to attribute values 
> changed in the UI or by other means (WS?  GSH?)
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
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> Subject: [grouper-users] Change log and attribute assign value changes
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> 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