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Re: back-config delete support (syncprov overlay)



> masarati@aero.polimi.it wrote:
>>> Am Freitag 26 Februar 2010 13:30:55 schrieb masarati@aero.polimi.it:
>>> Returning an error just for the LDAPSync related Search seemed more
>>> logical to me.
>>
>> In any case, (ab)using an existing error code might not be optimal.  as
>> a
>> consequence of removing slapo-syncprov(5), any consumer using it needs
>> to
>> be clearly informed that just retrying later is probably not an option.
>> On the contrary, returning a dedicated error would allow to exactly
>> inform
>> the consumer about what it can expect from the (former) producer, and
>> possibly to suggest a strategy (e.g. the message could contain a hint
>> about some substitute producer, or so).
>
> This situation is no different than pointing a consumer at a server that
> has
> no provider configured. We don't do anything special for that case; I
> don't
> believe anything special is called for here.

Well, I believe it's not exactly identical.  If you point a consumer to a
DSA that's not a producer, sync replication cannot initiate.  If you point
a consumer to a DSA that's a producer, and eventually ceases to be a
producer, the consumer could take advantage of being informed that it's
pointless to keep retrying an "unwilling to perform" that could be
interpreted as a temporary failure.  But I don't want to make a point of
it, as it would probably take us too far from the initial objective...

p.