--- loncom/interface/longroup.pm	2006/07/29 00:31:58	1.12
+++ loncom/interface/longroup.pm	2006/11/28 19:46:00	1.13
@@ -40,14 +40,17 @@ Input:
 1. Optional course domain
 2. Optional course number
 3. Optional group name
+4. Optional namespace
 
 Course domain and number will be taken from user's
 environment if not supplied. Optional group name will 
-be passed to lonnet::get_coursegroups() as a regexp to
-use in the call to the dump function.
+be passed to lonnet function as a regexp to
+use in the call to the dump function.  Optional namespace
+will determine whether information is retrieved about current 
+groups (default) or deleted groups (namespace = deleted_groups). 
 
 Output
-Returns hash of groups in the course (subject to the
+Returns hash of groups in a course (subject to the
 optional group name filter). In the hash, the keys are
 group names, and their corresponding values
 are scalars containing group information in XML. This
@@ -60,7 +63,7 @@ None.
 ###############################################
 
 sub coursegroups {
-    my ($cdom,$cnum,$group) = @_;
+    my ($cdom,$cnum,$group,$namespace) = @_;
     if (!defined($cdom) || !defined($cnum)) {
         my $cid =  $env{'request.course.id'};
 
@@ -69,12 +72,16 @@ sub coursegroups {
         $cdom = $env{'course.'.$cid.'.domain'};
         $cnum = $env{'course.'.$cid.'.num'};
     }
-    my %curr_groups = &Apache::lonnet::get_coursegroups($cdom,$cnum,$group);
-    if (my $tmp = &Apache::lonnet::error(%curr_groups)) {
-	undef(%curr_groups);
-        &Apache::lonnet::logthis('Error retrieving groups: '.$tmp.' in '.$cnum.':'.$cdom);
+    if (!defined($namespace)) {
+        $namespace = 'coursegroups';
+    } 
+    my %groups =  &Apache::lonnet::get_coursegroups($cdom,$cnum,$group,
+                                                    $namespace);
+    if (my $tmp = &Apache::lonnet::error(%groups)) {
+	undef(%groups);
+        &Apache::lonnet::logthis('Error retrieving groups: '.$tmp.' in '.$cnum.':'.$cdom.' - '.$namespace);
     }
-    return %curr_groups;
+    return %groups;
 }
 
 ###############################################