Re: (ITS#4991) pcache and rwm don't play well together

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Ralf Haferkamp wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 June 2007 19:09, Howard Chu wrote:
> > It used to be a requirement that any data passing through back-ldap be
> > defined in the local server's schema. Recently that requirement was 
> > relaxed. I don't see how you can normalize them safely, without knowing
> > their schema constraints.
> Yeah, there of course case were you can't normalize safely. Probably that 
> feature should get a config-switch (defaulting to "no normalization"). But 
> there are a lot of case where normalizing according to the constraints of the 
> mapped attributetype should "just work".
> E.g. we have to proxy here for a directory that uses all kinds of strange 
> attribute types instead of the well defined existing types (e.g. it uses an 
> attributetype "fullname" instead of "displayname" or "cn") and we know that 
> we can savely map them to one of the well defined attribute types. But we are 
> a bit reluctant to pollute the schema of the server (which also host other 
> databases) with those attribute types.

OK. I guess if you're mapping it to a known attributeType, then one way or 
another it needs to conform to that type's rules, so yeah, normalizing that way 
makes sense.

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