Re: Changelog draft ...

[Gordon Good <ggood@netscape.com>]

Sanjay Jain wrote:

> I was thinking that should 'changeLogEntry' object class be modified
> to
>  include an extra optional attribute 'unchangedAttributes'.
>  This attribute would store values for certain specific attributes
> even if they
>  have not been modified.

Sanjay, which "certain specific attributes" would be present? Who
determines which ones are present?

I'm concerned about the size of these changelog entries getting too
large.

> The format would be LDIF.
> This attribute would be present (if supported) in all types of
> changelog entries
>  except 'changeType: add'.  One should be able to configure these
> attributes in the
> LDAP server.
>
>  IMO, this would help changelog clients to identify whether they need
> to
>  process a changelog or not e.g. based on the 'objectClass' attribute
>  if it is present in the 'unchangedAttributes'.  The other use could
> be to
>  map a changelog entry to an entry in other type of directory.  E.g.
> if
>  client directory uses 'uid' to identify directory entries and 'uid'
> is not
>  there in the DNs but is present in 'unchangedAttributes'.
>
>  sanjay
>
>