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[Richard Frovarp <>]

Grouper newbie here. I would likely need something similar. Why not write intermediary code to use Grouper web services? That was my plan, so I'm curious as to what I'm missing.

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From: <> on behalf of Gettes, Michael <>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 4:36:55 PM
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Subject: [grouper-users] Grouper Loader - of another type

 

Hi all,

Currently, grouper supports loader jobs of LDAP and SQL and an additional capability to inject messages to process changes related to an individual - a way of sparking loader jobs for one person instead of in bulk - at least this is my interpretation.

I have a need for loader jobs to be of an arbitrary nature - call a program, written in any language, which might do REST calls or whatever and return, in bulk, something similar to what the loader job now receives from SQL/LDAP.  This way I can go against alternative sources without the need of staging the data into LDAP/SQL but get all the benefits and scale of a grouper loader job.

Does anyone else see a need for this?  Grouper dev dudes… (and dudettes)… have you considered this?  I can only assume you have since you guys have thought of a great many things for grouper.

Many thanks for your time and consideration especially if you choose to respond.

/mrg