[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 783 get group info when showing user

Rob Crittenden rcritten at redhat.com
Fri May 20 14:21:00 UTC 2011


Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Adam Young wrote:
>> On 05/13/2011 04:10 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> The UI team had asked that we provide some group info (GID,
>>> description) when showing users. This ads a special call to group_find
>>> to get this information. It is returned as a list of dicts.
>>>
>>> ticket 107
>>>
>>> rob
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> I wonder if this is the wrong abstraction. As we discussed today, we
>> need to do many of these types of cross referential searches. Bascially,
>> we need to be able to filter on 'member' and 'memberof' type
>> relationships.
>>
>> So if we did a group_find --member_user=ayoung it would return all
>> groups that I am a member of. This would work across the board for
>> association facets
>
> That works now, as specified in the ticket. I was under the impression
> this was rejected which is why I embedded it into user-show. What you
> suggested works now with: ipa group-find --users=ayoung
>
> memberof doesn't exist in the group, you have to look at the end entity.
>
> rob

So what shall I do with this? Dump the patch and re-assign the ticket to 
the UI?

rob




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