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Returning single values from multivalued attributes
This topic has been briefly discussed on this list before (30 July),
but no conclusions were reached. Briefly the situation is that X.500
DAP allows a user to search an entry and only request that matched
values are returned from a multi-valued attribute rather than all
attributes. LDAP only allows all or no values to be returned.
There has also been a request in the PKIX group that LDAP should
allow a single user certificate to be returned (the one that matches
the users filter), rather than all the users certificates.
I believe that once clients start to retreive schema definitions they
will also want matched values only to be returned.
There are a couple of approaches this group can take
i) say that this is not a significant problem and ignore it. Let the
client sort out the value it wants
ii) say that it is a significant problem and try to fix it via a new
matchedValuesOnly control ID. (I can volunteer to write the ID if
people are interested in it)
What do people think about this?
David
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