Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

[Andrew Morgan <>]

That's possible (we've done it here), but then you have to retrieve the 
group membership from Grouper plus the intended membership from your 
external source.  Then, do a two-way compare to generate changes and call 
the API to make those changes.

Now imagine you want to do that for, say, all course groups for a specific 
term...  That's a lot of extra work!  :)

        Andy


On Thu, 14 Feb 2019, Richard Frovarp wrote:

> 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.
> ________________________________
> From:  <> on 
> behalf of Gettes, Michael <>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 4:36:55 PM
> To: 
> 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