Re: Returning single values from multivalued attributes

[David Chadwick <d.w.chadwick@salford.ac.uk>]

Mark Smith wrote

> I lean towards (i) but I'd like to have more discussion about this -- both
> about how people envision using this feature and how the existing feature
> works in X.500 DAP.  Can you explain exactly how the matchedValuesOnly
> argument works in DAP?  I find the text in X.511 to be quite confusing. 
> Some basic questions I have:
> 
> a) Does matchedValuesOnly affect single-valued attributes or just
> multivalued ones?

Its effect on a single valued attribute is null.

> 
> b) Can matchedValuesOnly be used with equality filters?

No, but the easy work around to this is to put the equality filter in the 
extended filter element of the search.

David

> 
> -- 
> Mark Smith
> iPlanet Directory Architect / Sun-Netscape Alliance
> My words are my own, not my employer's.   Got LDAP?
> 


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