Hello, i work on application to GSoC2009.
I am interested in directory-proxy proposal from apache wiki, but have a few questions: 1) the view of ldap message log. I plan to display incoming messages in byte form in table view with additional view in proxy perspective for decoded form. For example, if we have a ldap message (as it in java byte input): 0x02, 0x01, 0x01, 0x60, 0x16, 0x02, 0x01, 0x03, 0x04, 0x09, 0x63, 0x6E, 0x3D, 0x70, 0x72, 0x65, 0x76, 0x65, 0x64, (byte)0x80, 0x06, 0x70, 0x72, 0x65, 0x76, 0x65, 0x64. To write in request log table lines (2 color groups to separate messages): msgId 0x02, 0x01, 0x01 msgId 0x60 msgId 0x16 msgId 0x02, 0x01, 0x03 msgId 0x04, 0x09, 0x63, 0x6E, 0x3D, 0x70, 0x72, 0x65, 0x76, 0x65, 0x64 msgId (byte)0x80, 0x06, 0x70, 0x72, 0x65, 0x76, 0x65, 0x64. By clicking on line of table we will see in decoded view: messageId: 0x02, 0x01, 0x01 - Integer, length - 1, value -1. operation: 0x60, PDU length: 0x16, version: 0x02, 0x01, 0x03 - Integer, length - 1 ldapDN: 0x04, 0x09, 0x63, 0x6E, 0x3D, 0x70, 0x72, 0x65, 0x76, 0x65, 0x64, OCTET STRING, length - 9, value cn=preved Simple Auth type: (byte)0x80, 0x06, 0x70, 0x72, 0x65, 0x76, 0x65, 0x64. length - 6, value=preved. 2) Is user input required? If it is required binary form is sufficient? 3) How proxy plugin shiuld be configured? We set proxy incoming port, select saved connection and send client requests from incoming port to server, or we try to get binary data from current connection where directory sudio is a client and write ldap messages to log? 4) can i use classes from org.apache.directory.shared.ldap.codec? or i have to implement own LdapMessageDecoder/Encoder?
