Checking Groups Status

[Tim Gustafson]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a PHP script that looks at all the Google Groups in our domain and pulls down their membership lists so that information can be recorded locally in our LDAP server.  I've got a script that looks like this right now:

$groups = $service->retrieveAllGroups();

foreach($groups as $group) {
  # i have not figured out yet how to access properties by their "name", rather
  # than their index in the $group->property array, so I'm making an associative
  # array of all the properties for now

  $properties = array();

  foreach($group->property as $property) {
    $properties[$property->name] = $property->value;
  }

  $members = $service->retrieveAllRecipients($properties["groupId"]);

  foreach($members as $member) {
    # record membership information here
  }
}

However, retrieving the membership list can take quite a while on some of our groups - many of them have more than 1,000 members.  Is there any way to get a "last time a member was added or removed from the group" property so that I can simply skip the ones that have not been updated since the last time I ran the sync script?  Is there a more efficient way of doing this?  Is there any way Google can be configured to "push" updates to us, so that we don't have to "pull" them periodically?

Thanks!

[Claudio Cherubino]

Hi Tim,

Unfortunately, the Provisioning API doesn't support push notifications, but there is an open feature request for it in our issue tracker that you can subscribe to:

http://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/apps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=2785

You can also considering calling the retrievePageOfRecipients() method repeatedly instead of retrieveAllRecipients() in order to retrieve 200 group members at a time instead of having the library iterate through all of them before returning anything.

Claudio

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[Tim Gustafson]

> Unfortunately, the Provisioning API doesn't support push notifications, but
> there is an open feature request for it in our issue tracker that you can
> subscribe to:
>
> http://code.google.com/a/google.com/p/apps-api-issues/issues/detail?id=2785

I have subscribed to that issue.

> You can also considering calling the retrievePageOfRecipients() method
> repeatedly instead of retrieveAllRecipients() in order to retrieve 200 group
> members at a time instead of having the library iterate through all of them
> before returning anything.

That doesn't help, as I'll still have to poll all the users anyhow.

What about the "last updated" time stamp for each group as part of the
retrieveAllGroups() results?

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Tim Gustafson
t...@soe.ucsc.edu
831-459-5354

[Claudio Cherubino]

There is no way to get the last time a member was added or removed to/from a group but feel free to file another feature request for it.

Thanks

Claudio

 

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Tim Gustafson
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