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Re: Versioning entries in the DIT

Hallvard B Furuseth wrote: 
Surely an attribute with the Name and Optional UID syntax ought to be
useful for this somehow, even if I can't think of how at the moment:-)

Heh, that's an easy trap to fall into. "Surely this thing is useful for *something*" No, it's not.

NameAndOptionalUID is only usable for referencing a specific entry from within an attribute of another entry. It is *not* usable for *naming* an entry.

That is, a DN optionally followed by #<bitstring>  used to disambiguate
several entries with the same "effective" DN.  Maybe combined with an
attribute with a copy of entries' entryUUID attribute, and an index on
entryUUID.  That's a unique ID which OpenLDAP generates for each entry,
and which does not change even when the entry is renamed.

The UID part of NameAndOptionalUID *must* be the value of the x500UniqueID attribute of the referenced entry; you don't get to choose some other identifier for the purpose. You'll have to invent some other syntax for a NameAndUUID type...

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