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[Steven Carmody <>]

DUH.....

thanks for  your patience !

On 8/22/16 12:56 PM, Hyzer, Chris wrote:
> You have a comma after assign_attr...  remove it and try :)
>
> Thanks
> Chris
>
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> Subject: [grouper-users] WsAssignAttributesLiteResults, question about 
> parameters
>
> Hi,
>
> We have a number of AttributeDefName definitions that allow only a
> single value. We have a Grouper GUI that updates these values. Currently
> the GUI code does NOT check to see if its changing the value of one of
> these attributes -- it just tries to save an attribute value.
>
> I'm trying to figure out what values to use for
>
> attributeAssignOperation and attributeAssignValueOperation
>
> in this situation. I'm currently using:
>
>         'attributeAssignOperation' => 'assign_attr,',
>         'attributeAssignValueOperation' => 'replace_values',
>
> but I just got this error message, which I find a bit confusing:
>
> [resultMessage] => java.lang.RuntimeException: Cant find
> AttributeAssignOperation from string: 'assign_attr,', expecting one of:
> assign_attr, add_attr, replace_attrs, remove_attr,
>
> The documentation says that these parameters can have these values:
>
> attributeAssignOperation - operation to perform for attribute on owners,
> from enum AttributeAssignOperation assign_attr, add_attr, remove_attr
>
> attributeAssignValueOperation - operation to perform for attribute value
> on attribute assignments: assign_value, add_value, remove_value,
> replace_values
>
> do I have to know whether I'm assigning or replacing ? How do I say
> "just set the value to [this value] whether or not there was a value
> there previously?"
>
> thanks !