Re: backend private data

[Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>]

David Parker writes:
> It looks like all of the existing backends grab a backend-specific
> pointer from op->o_bd->be_private in, for instance, their bind
> methods.

If they need backend-specific data, yes.

> At what point in the request processing does the
> op->o_bd->be_private pointer get populated?

Typically you'll malloc it and set default values in bi->bi_db_init,
fill it in bi->bi_db_config, and destroy it in bi->bi_db_destroy.
See e.g. back-bdb/init.c.

> In back-ldap, for example, the be_private is being cast to a "struct
> ldapinfo *", but I don't see anywhere in the slapd directory that
> knows about this type,

The type is defined by a .h file in the backend.  It contains whatever
data the backend needs to know about which is specific to backend and
therefore not known by slapd proper.

-- 
Hallvard