Subgroup Members

Jim Fox, Benn Oshrin, Marlena Erdos, Chris Hyzer, Keith Hazelton, Warren Curry, and Maarten Kremers

Current Assignment

Conduct and publish the results of a critical evaluation of the basic group and membership management APIs.

Initial Task within Assignment

Use Swagger 2.0 and/or RAML 1.0 to represent the three most basic RESTful group API calls as defined by Grouper, VOOT2, SCIM 2.0 and CIFER

• The Three Most Basic Calls: 

  • 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

• Grouper:  See the REST-style versions linked from the linked page. For example, to find out if a person is a member of a given group, see hasMemberLite at https://spaces.at.internet2.edu/display/Grouper/Has+Member

• VOOT2 from SURFnet: Maarten Kremers confirmed that VOOT2 is only about GETs.

• SCIM: See both the Protocol Specification RFC7644  and Core Schema Specification RFC7643. Marlena Erdos comment: Quite rich group operations for read (and search) and write, quite fully documented -- and quite low level. Applies to a client contacting a server (natch, but this in contrast to Grouper)

• CIFER: See the page Authorization Standard API.

Results and Deliverables