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The Grouper ESB Connector is designed to enable Grouper to interface with an ESB in order to send and receive individual events as changes occur (see architectural diagram). It was included in Grouper 1.6 and is currently experimental. This means that, although it is in use in a production environment, it has not seen sufficient use to be considered stable. It hooks into the changelog consumer and is not a general import/export tool, supporting a limited number of operations. It is deliberately lightweight and if functionality you require is not available you may wish to consider using the Web Service instead.

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Configure in grouper-loader.properties

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changeLog.consumer.esb.class = edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.changeLog.esb.consumer.EsbConsumer
#run every minute
changeLog.consumer.esb.quartzCron = 0 * * * * ?
changeLog.consumer.esb.elfilter = event.eventType eq 'GROUP_DELETE' || event.eventType eq 'GROUP_ADD' || event.eventType eq 'MEMBERSHIP_DELETE' || event.eventType eq 'MEMBERSHIP_ADD'
changeLog.consumer.esb.publisher.class = edu.internet2.middleware.grouper.changeLog.esb.consumer.EsbHttpPublisher
changeLog.consumer.esb.publisher.url = http://localhost:8100/whatever/something

Copy the grouper/lib/jetty/jetty.jar and jetty-lib.jar to grouper/lib/grouper
Run the loader: gsh -loader
See this event at the HTTP endpoint

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POST /whatever/something HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.0
Host: localhost:8100
Content-Length: 218
{"esbEvent":[
{"displayName":"etc:rulesActAsGroup","eventType":"GROUP_ADD","id":"c0660833739147d996edf35ec0418398","name":"etc:rulesActAsGroup","parentStemId":"453bc7000061473aa9a0f00d0f67c62e","sequenceNumber":"319"}
]}

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