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Numerous questions on GroupEntity type field

jwestra — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 22:14:56 GMT

I am writing a custom GroupEntityManager to access an existing user and group store. I am basing it off of the LDAPGroupManager.java from Chapt. 10 of Activiti in Action book. That said, there is no group.setType() called anywhere in that code, so I am unclear what to do with that field.1. What ar

Re: Numerous questions on GroupEntity type field

jbarrez — Wed, 24 Feb 2016 09:58:44 GMT

The type is used foremost in Explorer/rest, to give users/admin role.

For example:

Group group = identityService.newGroup("user");
                group.setName("users");
                group.setType("security-role");
                identityService.saveGroup(group);