Re: (ITS#5959) back-meta doesn't detect illegal values

[ando@sys-net.it]

hyc@symas.com wrote:

> This seems like an odd situation, since we just went thru the validator above, 
> before attempting to normalize. In this case the attribute was 
> telephoneNumber, with a value of " " (a single space). The validator is 
> printableStringValidate, which accepts the value. But telephoneNumberNormalize 
> rejects it. Shouldn't the validator and normalizer always accept the same set 
> of input?

I suggest you file an ITS :)  I agree having normalize fail where 
validate would succeed should never happen.

> Anyway, HEAD is fixed to just drop the illegal values, as Ando suggested.

Thanks, I was about to look at it myself.

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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