Re: comments on draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-java-api-11.txt

[Rob Weltman <robw@worldspot.com>]

"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:
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> >  The operations defined in the API (for language-sensitive extraction of attributes) are operations on an object in memory at the client side, not LDAP protocol operations. There is no need and no benefit to having the operations on LDAPAttributeSet mimic the semantics of the search protocol operation. The intent of the language-sensitive operations in the API is to provide significant value to the user of the API, beyond what can be accomplished with search options. As I described in a message to this list on September 21, the semantics of the language-sensitive operations on LDAPAttributeSet were derived from a study of desired behavior in environments where localized and multi-language data is to be retrieved from a directory.
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> How do I remove "name" from the attrSet without removing it's subtypes?

  My comment was misplaced - it really referred to the discussion in the previous paragraph about Section 4.3.5.

  I guess I could go either way as to the effect of removing "name" from LDAPAttributeSet. In the Mozilla implementation, the behavior is to remove only "name" and not any subtypes.

Rob