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Re: (ITS#6194) Patch - Enhancement - provide LDIF support as libldif

rmeggins@redhat.com wrote:
> The ldif code does not currently have knowledge of any of the higher
> level LDAP data types such as LDAPMod or LDAPControl - some of the
> proposals would have the ldif API return these objects - Do we really
> want to introduce this higher level knowledge into the relatively low
> level libldif, along with the dependency on libldap?  I think in order
> to do this properly, we would have to introduce a new LDAP API e.g.
> ldap_mods_from_ldif(const char *ldifstr, LDAPMod***, LDAPControl***) or
> something like that - something that would parse the given ldif record
> into those higher level data types.

Should have mentioned this sooner; this ITS needs to be merged with ITS#4033.
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