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[Jim Fox <>]

The situation.

I'm migrating from an old attribute version (1.6) to 2.3.
All groups had a group type of 'uwstd', with attribute 'contact' (among 
others)
The migration created an AttributeDefName 'etc:legacy:attribute:legacyGroupType_uwstd' and 
and AttributeDefName 'etc:legacy:attribute:legacyAttribute_contact'.

I'm trying to work with the new attribute framework.  With a converted group 
I get:

gsh 1% root=GrouperSession.startRootSession()

   that was OK

gsh 2% g=GroupFinder.findByName(root, "u:fox:browser6", true)

   found it

gsh 3% g.getAttributesMap(false)

   returned a hashmap, containing, among other things,
     
contact=Attribute[attrName=contact,groupUuid=a16...04381,id=84258...165a,value=fox],

gsh 4% g.getAttributeValue("contact", false, false)

   returns 'fox' as expected.

gsh 5% 
stdname=AttributeDefNameFinder.findByName("etc:legacy:attribute:legacyGroupType_uwstd",
 true)

   finds the name def for 'uwstd'

gsh 6% 
contact=AttributeDefNameFinder.findByName("etc:legacy:attribute:legacyAttribute_contact",
 true)

   finds the name def for 'contact'

gsh 7% g.getAttributeDelegate().hasAttribute(stdname)

   returns 'true' as I expected

gsh 8% g.getAttributeDelegate().hasAttribute(contact)

   returns 'false'   Why is that on false when getAttributeValue found it OK?


Then if I try to set an attribute value

gsh 12% 
g.getAttributeValueDelegate().assignValue("etc:legacy:attribute:legacyAttribute_contact",
 "jimfox")

   I get an error.

// Error: unable to evaluate command: Sourced file: inline evaluation of: 
``g.getAttributeValueDelegate().assignValue("etc:legacy:attribute:legacyAttribute_
 . . . '' : Method Invocation assignValue
// See error log for full stacktrace
// caused by: 
edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.exception.AttributeOwnerNotInScopeException:
// Cant find a scope definition that fits this assignment: 
AttributeDef[name=etc:legacy:attribute:legacyAttributeDef_uwstd,uuid=8f2f24ef41fe4d8bbeda94f72a9f90d4],
 Group[name=u:fox:browser6,uuid=a1681c3fcba3f54f759e6c9432004381]


What's a scope definition?    What steps am I missing?
Thanks,

Jim

p.s. I can edit attributes in the GUI.