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[Steven Carmody <>]

took some time to make sure this info is accurate --

with the GUI I'm authenticating as myself; I'm in the wheel group; I 
select "Act as ADMIN".

The application is authenticating to the web services endpoint as 
GrouperSystem.

On 8/9/17 11:12 AM, Hyzer, Chris wrote:
> Is the authenticated user the same?  i.e. maybe in the UI you are a wheel 
> member and in the WS you are not?  Are you using actas in WS?  The results 
> should be the same :)
>
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> Subject: [grouper-users] web services, get groups, seems to be returning a 
> subset ?
>
> Hi,
>
> If I use the ADMIN GUI, and Explore to a group, and click View Entity
> Details, and ask to "Show all groups where this entity is a member
> (DIRECT or INDIRECT)", I can see 8 groups in the list that are under the
> BROWN:SERVICES stem.
>
> However, if I use the WS getGroups method, I'm only returned five
> groups. I'm somewhat surprised, too, that the return set includes groups
> where my "member group" is both a direct and indirect member. There's no
> obvious differentiator between the ones that were included and the ones
> that weren't.
>
> When I invoke getGroups, I'm passing the "member group"s UUID value. I'm
> also passing a stemName ("BROWN:SERVICES"), and a stemScope
> ('ALL_IN_SUBTREE'), and a memberFilter ('All').
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions ?
>
> thanks !