add enable/disable dates on groups like memberships and permissions

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    • Type: New Feature
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Minor
    • 2.5.0
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Component/s: API, UI, WS
    • None

      Work involved:

      • Add columns enabled, enabled_timestamp, disabled_timestamp to grouper_groups
      • When a group is expired or unexpired, propagate the result to memberships, privileges (except admin privileges), and attributes.
      • Update UI to show enabled/disabled dates and allow them to be edited.
      • Update WS to show enabled/disabled dates and allow them to be edited.
      • Have a way of returning disabled groups in WS.
      • Change log and point in time
        • Real change log would first get a disable event.  Then followed by the usual events (e.g. membership deletes)
        • Enabling a group would do the opposite.  (Enable event goes first.)
        • This would allow special consumers to do something different based on whether a group is being enabled/disabled vs all the memberships actually being removed.  The context id of the enabled/disabled event would be the same as all the membership changes to allow the consumer to know which events to skip if it chooses to do so.
      • Daemon job to update enabled flag based on dates.
      • Update grouper_groups_v and grouper_roles_v to include new columns
      • Entities can also be disabled

            Assignee:
            Shilen Patel
            Reporter:
            Chris Hyzer (upenn.edu)
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