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

[Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

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.

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 -- Howard Chu
 Chief Architect, Symas Corp.  http://www.symas.com
 Director, Highland Sun        http://highlandsun.com/hyc
 Chief Architect, OpenLDAP     http://www.openldap.org/project/


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