Fwd: Re: (ITS#6194) Patch - Enhancement - provide LDIF support as libldif

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

So, what do folks think about reviving libldif as an exported piece of the 
distribution?

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: (ITS#6194) Patch - Enhancement - provide LDIF support as libldif
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 03:46:08 GMT
From: hyc@symas.com
To: openldap-its@openldap.org

rmeggins@redhat.com wrote:
> I think this could be accomplished in one of two ways:
> 1) Just have libldif return lists of struct berval* for the various data
> parsed.  The caller would be responsible for turning these into LDAPMod
> or LDAPControl structures - the advantage is that libldif doesn't have
> to know about any of these higher level structures
> 2) Have libldif create LDAPMod and LDAPControl - I think this could be
> accomplished by having ldif.c #include<ldap.h>  to pull in the
> definitions of LDAPMod and LDAPControl - would this be ok?

Let's move this discussion to the openldap-devel mailing list. I'm thinking
(2) is OK but I'd like to hear from other developers / potential users of this
library.

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