[keycloak-dev] 2 Groups with same name?

[Bill Burke]

Groups should be able to have the same name, but different parents.

i.e.

/Engineering/Managers
/Sales/Managers

If you want to fix the other scenarios to deny same group name in same 
folder(parent), then feel free.  Just know you have to implement it for 
moving groups as well as creating.

On 3/24/2016 2:17 PM, Stan Silvert wrote:
> We currently allow more than one group to have the same name.  I realize
> that this is probably due to the fact that groups are hierarchical and
> you might want the same group name at different levels.
>
> However, right now there are no restrictions at all.  You can have as
> many "foo" groups as you like even if they have the same parent. This
> causes a problem in the UI because you can't tell them apart.
>
> Plus, apparently, KeycloakModelUtils.findGroupByPath() will return the
> first group it finds.  If there is more than one group with the same
> path then it might not return the group you are looking for.
>
> It would make our code a lot simpler and less error-prone if we enforced
> that all group names be unique throughout.  But I don't know if that is
> to restrictive for users.  At the very least, two groups should probably
> not have the same path.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Stan
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