Re: [ldapext] [Fwd: LDAP C API gripes]

[simo <idra@samba.org>]

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 08:01 -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> simo wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 07:47 -0800, Howard Chu wrote:
> >   
> >> Something else that comes to mind - the client library ought to be 
> >> schema-aware. This is something that was always a given in X.500 
> >> clients, but has never had any priority in LDAP clients. It might be 
> >> worthwhile to implement syntax validation in the library, to catch bogus 
> >> inputs before talking to any servers...
> >>     
> >
> > Does it mean making the client retrieve the schema from the server each
> > time? Might work on long lived apps, but an ldapadd would terribly
> > suffer ...
> >   
> 
> This would only be part of a higher level API. I would only expect GUI 
> tools to use it, although if you're ldapadding a 512MB LDIF it might be 
> worthwhile to use it on the commandline too.

Still the idea does not really appeal me, can you summarize very quickly
what advantage do you get in doing that?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer
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