[CalendarServer-users] Find group membership of users on client side

[Gaurav Jain]

Since I am in development mode and probably will not be dealing with large
scale in near future.....is there a way I can simply ignore cache or cache
everything?

cache everything will be better as I am not dealing with scale for right
now.

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Gaurav Jain <monkeyfdude at gmail.com> wrote:

> Please note each can client create its own set of groups.
>
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Gaurav Jain <monkeyfdude at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My use case is as follows:
>>
>> * iCal client
>> * CalServer-5.2.2
>> * client has a local cache of its 'group memberships'
>> * client wants to schedule an event for group 'group01'
>> * Before it can do so, client need to make sure that it is *still* a
>> member of 'group01'
>> * client treats CalServer as source of truth
>>
>> * So it asks for its group memberships from the server before it can
>> create an event.
>>
>> Hence I was looking for a REST api to get the same from Calendar Server.
>>
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>> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Cyrus Daboo <cdaboo at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gaurav,
>>>
>>> --On December 5, 2014 at 1:05:03 PM -0800 Gaurav Jain <
>>> monkeyfdude at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Please see my output below. I did get memberships for 'user01' mentioned
>>>> in group record 'disabledgroup'
>>>>
>>>
>>> OK, so what is going on here is that we have a special group membership
>>> caching strategy. Basically, because the number of groups in an
>>> organization can be large, we do not iterate all groups and cache
>>> membership. Instead we look for which groups are referenced as calendar
>>> proxies or other relevant ways, and then only cache membership for those.
>>> So, if you look at user20 you will see them listed in group05 because
>>> group05 is used as a proxy.
>>>
>>> What exactly are you trying to do with groups?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cyrus Daboo
>>>
>>>
>>
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