Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Rory Larson <>]

Hello,

I have a group with largely redundant membership.  It was originally created 
with direct memberships from one data source, and then given a few groups 
from another data source that had most of the same people, in a process 
intended to be a smooth transition.  Now I would like to remove all the old 
direct memberships from the group, leaving only the new subgroups with their 
members.

When I try this through the Grouper New UI, marking all direct members on the 
page for deletion, it grinds for a while, deletes a few members, and then 
crashes with a pink error message telling me to start over.  It works as 
advertised for the few it does delete, but since I'm dealing with a 
membership of over 7500, this route does not look promising.

I would like to handle this through gsh, but I'm having trouble figuring out 
how to filter.  The query I've been developing might look something like this:

$ for (mem : getMembers("my:group:name")) {System.out.println("deleting: " + 
mem.getName()); mem.delete();}

But I'm queasy about using this, because I'm not sure what all I'm deleting, 
and where.  I don't want to delete my subgroups, and I don't want to delete 
anybody inside those subgroups.  I tried testing with an if statement to 
check names against who shows up with direct and indirect memberships in the 
New UI, and was disappointed to discover that getMembers() returns both 
direct and indirect members.

Is there a method that will return only the direct members of a group, but 
not member groups?  Or is there a filter I could use to select only the ones 
I want through an if statement?

Thanks,
Rory