Re: constraint overlay (ITS#3292)

[ando@sys-net.it]

neil.dunbar@hp.com wrote:

>On Tuesday 15 March 2005 02:15, Kurt Zeilenga wrote:
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>>Ping.
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>Yup - finally getting round to completing this work. Hey - it's only been 6 
>months! Man page will be written ASAP (hopefully tomorrow).
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>I've decided to zap the iconv() stuff - so the constraint plugin simply 
>applies regular expression constraint upon attributes. Since regex is already 
>part of the OL autoconf process, I reckon this should impose no additional 
>needs upon the core software.
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>I'm also playing with the ability to store the constraints within the DIT (say 
>with an auxiliary class "attributeConstrainingClass", which allows the 
>optional attribute "attributeConstraint", whose form is 
>"<attribute>=<regex>"). Not sure if this is useful, but since it would be 
>entirely optional (and in fact inoperable without an additional schema file),
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You could register it dynamically thru the overlay's bi_init() 
callback.  See ppolicy for other schema registering code examples.

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>it doesn't actually mandate changes which the directory admin wouldn't like. 
>Since such a "meta-attribute" isn't defined in anyone's standard, I'll 
>probably prefix it with "hp" and carve out some of our OID space.
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Maybe you could ask for some OpenLDAP-based OID registering (in the .666 
space?).

p.


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