Grouper Training Developers and Architects Web Services - Part 1 Chris Hyzer Internet2 University of Pennsylvania This work licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

2 Contents Introduction Operations SOAP / REST-like Data formats

3 Introduction to WS for developers

4 Operations Find groups Get members / has member Add / delete member Group create / edit / delete Get memberships

5 Operations (continued) Get privileges Assign / remove privileges Get subjects Member change subject Find folder (stem) Create / remove folder

6 Operations (continued) Get attributes Assign/remove attributes Get permission assignments Assign/remove permissions Find/create/delete attribute/permission names Assign/remove permission inheritance

7 SOAP / REST-like

8 SOAP SOAP uses XML WS-* security Separate WSDL's for past versions Axis2

9 REST-like RPC exactly like SOAP Not strict RESTful URLs are operations not nouns Uses HTTP methods GET/POST/PUT/DELETE though the URLs are not nouns Grouper Subjects have composite keys (source ID and subject ID) Objects have multiple lookup methods

10 REST-like data formats JSON (default in ) XML XHTML HTTP POST params (input only)

11 Quiz Click on the quiz link in the video description to reinforce your knowledge of this topic

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