Thanks Francesco! What do you think of the following additions to GroupTO: - staticMembershipCount - dynamicMembershipCount - totalMembershipCount (maybe not necessary?)
Colm. On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Francesco Chicchiriccò < ilgro...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Colm, > > On 20/11/2017 18:19, Colm O hEigeartaigh wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Recently we updated the RelationshipTO class to return the "other" end of >> the relationship. I'm wondering if it's possible (or desirable) to try and >> do something similar with memberships? >> > > Not sure what you mean here: if I am reading an user, I can see from > relationships that the other end is an AnyObject; from memberships, I can > see that the other end is a Group. > > So the only difference would be when reading a group instead, to see all > members there (as SCIM does). > > As a motivating use-case, take seeing how many users are members of a >> particular group. It's not possible to do it via the group REST API >> (unless >> I'm mistaken, please correct me if it is possible), but by querying the >> users REST API with (for example) $groups==employees. >> >> Let's say we want to get a list of all of the group names in Syncope, with >> a corresponding user membership count. We have to get the groups, then >> find >> the count of users in each group, which is not very efficient. >> >> I'm guessing listing the users who are members of the group in a call to >> GET a given group could result in a massive response. >> > > Definitely agree. > > But perhaps we could include a simple count in GroupTO representing the >> current static and >> dynamic users who are members of the given group at that point in time? >> > > Understand: we can even differentiate between static and dynamic members, > users and any objects. > > +1 to go ahead and fill an improvement on JIRA for this. > > Regards. > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > Tirasa - Open Source Excellence > http://www.tirasa.net/ > > Member at The Apache Software Foundation > Syncope, Cocoon, Olingo, CXF, OpenJPA, PonyMail > http://home.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ > > -- Colm O hEigeartaigh Talend Community Coder http://coders.talend.com
