After investigation, the problem is a little bit more complex than what I just described.
We have done some tests with Studio, and here is what we found : - if you define an attributeType _without_ any matching rule, then you should have a problem. As we cannot use an identity MR (because none has been defined), you will get a NPE at some point, unless we define the filter as undefined. - I have fixed many places in the server where we didn't replaced a missing Substring MR by the identity MR. I will commit those fixes after integration tests. - Now, some users want to do searches using filters like (uniqueMember=uid=g.kelly*). Of course, we can say that it should return nothing, as the filter is undefined, but I find this a little bit too tight. What if we simply use th equality MR in this case ? I would say that if we don't have Substring MR, we should use Equality MR, and if we don't have Equality MR, then we should simply consider the filter as undefined. This could be done during the filter parsing, instead of doing it during the filter evaluation. wdyt ? -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com
