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Grouper Web Services

Grouper 2.0 web service servers will accept clients coded against the Grouper 1.6 or previous WS API's.  The 2.0 protocol is not exactly compatible with the 1.6 protocol, so both protocols run in the Grouper 2.0 WS server.

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Grouper SOAP uses auto-marshaling from Axis2 which does not support conditional fields (if null, it send back the field and says it is null).  So there is a new source path for 2.0, WSDL, and a new endpoint, aar, build script entry, etc.  The 1.6 WSDL is on the 2.0 server under the same name, the new one is:GrouperService_v2_0.wsdl.  the new WSDL does have a new target namespace too:

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<wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/"
xmlns:axis2="http://soap_v2_0.ws.grouper.middleware.internet2.edu"
xmlns:ns1="http://org.apache.axis2/xsd"
xmlns:ns="http://soap_v2_0.ws.grouper.middleware.internet2.edu/xsd"
xmlns:wsaw="http://www.w3.org/2006/05/addressing/wsdl"
xmlns:http="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/http/"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:mime="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/mime/"
xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/"
xmlns:soap12="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap12/"
targetNamespace="http://soap_v2_0.ws.grouper.middleware.internet2.edu">

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Bottom-line, the SOAP and RESTlike web services are completely backward compatible, and for SOAP, if you are coding against 2.0 (or upgrading), change the endpoint URL from GrouperService to GrouperService_v2_0.  Note, it will be 2.0 until there is a change that is not backwards compatible... that might be 2.1, or 2.2, or whatever.

Note, if your servlet is not grouperWs (e.g. grouper-ws) then adjust accordingly.

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