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Re: (ITS#8845) Cannot preserve existing controls with new extended operations
- To: openldap-its@OpenLDAP.org
- Subject: Re: (ITS#8845) Cannot preserve existing controls with new extended operations
- From: ondra@mistotebe.net
- Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 09:17:43 +0000
- Auto-submitted: auto-generated (OpenLDAP-ITS)
On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 04:09:12PM +0000, hyc@symas.com wrote:
> ondra@mistotebe.net wrote:
>> The issue is actually allowing existing controls to be used with newly
>> registered exops, since the only way to declare the compatibility would
>> be by re-registering the control. Problem there is that built-in
>> controls have everything static to controls.c, so it's not even possible
>> to do that.
>>
>> A solution would be to add another piece of API that receives a pair of
>> (control OID, exop OID), finds the control and adds the OID to the
>> sc_extendedops(bv) lists.
>>
>> Going to do just that (register_control_exop() a decent name?).
This implementation is in the ITS8845 branch of my GitHub repo:
https://github.com/mistotebe/openldap/tree/ITS8845
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OndÅ?ej KuznÃk
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