Support REAL syntax and matchingRules without precision loss
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Key: DIRSERVER-1004
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-1004
Project: Directory ApacheDS
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: schema
Reporter: Alex Karasulu
Priority: Minor
Fix For: 1.5.2
There is no real data type syntax in LDAP. Nor are there matchingRules for
attributes with this
syntax. ASN.1 defines an encoding for REAL data types here:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/languages/X.690-0207.pdf
Would really be nice to devise a simple encoding for the base, and mantissa of
REAL values
to be able to track them without rounding errors due to their persistence in
the directory.
There's been a lot of conversation about this topic but no one has actually
stepped up
and done it. Here's some links to these convos:
http://www.openldap.org/lists/openldap-bugs/200103/msg00065.html
Does anyone think they can take a stab at writing an LDAP syntax description
for REAL numbers
and providing the required SyntaxChecker and matchingRules for it as well?
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