Re: UUID external format

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> a short question about the way OpenLDAP (last version) exposes the
> entryUUID during replication. UUID is supposed to be binary :
>
> RFC 4530 :
>
> *2.1 UUID Syntax*
>
>      A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) [RFC4122
>      <http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.html>] is a 16-octet (128-
>      bit) value that identifies an object. The ASN.1 [X.680] type UUID is
>      defined to represent UUIDs as follows:
>
>             UUID ::= OCTET STRING (SIZE(16))
>                   -- constrained to an UUID [RFC4122<http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.html>]
>
>
>
> When the UUID is transfered in the Syncrepl cookies, it's as a String,
> not as a byte[] (with a format like xxx-yyyy-zzzz, kindof). Is there any
> reason not to transfer the UUID as a byte[] ?

Could be an oversight. RFC4533 and the syncprov implementation were not always 
in sync with each other. (ironic...)

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