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Subgroup Members

Jim Fox, Benn Oshrin, Marlena Erdos, Chris Hyzer, Keith Hazelton, Warren Curry, Maarten Kremers, Gabor Eszes, ...

Current Tasks

I. Draft API specifications for the most commonly used group management functions using Swagger 2.0

  • Our initial assumption was that the three most basic group management calls were: 
    • Is this person a member of this group?

    • List the members of a group

    • List all the groups for which a given person is a member

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Info

 

 

U Dub’s eight most heavily used Group ops

Chris Hyzer’s top three group operations

1) isMember (or hasMember)

1) isMember (or hasMember)

2) getMembers (of a group)

2) getMembers (of a group)

7) get/search Groups (of a member)

3) getGroups (of a member)

3) getGroup

 
4) putGroup 

5) getAllMembers (of a group)

 
6) putAllMembers (of a group) 

8) put/delete member to/from Group

 

II. Draft the data schema for the group entity itself

III. Define APIs needed to support a RESTful subject source for use by Grouper

Prior Work on Group Management APIs

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  • FYI, Group Mgt used in some research communities:
    • VOMS - Virtual Organization Management Service.  Used by the international Grid and Open Science Grid communities.  Uses X.509 attribute certificates.

Resources 


Results and Deliverables