Find Attribute Definitions

Grouper Web Services

Description

Find attribute definitions based on name or ID or other criteria. This is new as of Grouper v2.3.0

Features

• Find attribute definitions based on list of names, ids, or indexes)

• Search by wildcard string (search filter)

• Search by parent folder (only in that folder or also subfolders)

• Lookup the attribute definition be name, id, or index

• Non-lite service can search for multiple attributeDefs at once by name/id/index

• Returns attribute definition(s)

• Can page and sort the results

• Can actAs another user

findAttributeDef Lite service

• Accepts individual arguments, can only lookup one attributeDef by name/id/index or can search for multiple...

• Documentation: SOAP (click on findAttributeDefsLite), REST

• For REST, the request can put data in query string (in URL or request body)

• REST request (colon is escaped to %3A): GET /grouper-ws/servicesRest/v2_3_000/attributeDefs

  • Note: if passing data in request body e.g. actAs, use a POST

• (see documentation above for details): Request object, response object

• Response codes

• Samples (all files with "Lite" in them, click on "download" to see file)

findAttributeDef service

• Accepts multiple arguments, can lookup multiple attributeDefs by name/id/index or can search for multiple

• Documentation: SOAP (click on findAttributeDefs), REST

• REST request (colon is escaped to %3A): GET /grouper-ws/servicesRest/v2_3_000/attributeDefs

• (see documentation above for details): Request object, response object

• Response codes

• Samples (all files with "Lite" in them, click on "download" to see file)