Cool we just need to look into all this business of what to do when we don't
have a valid SUBSTR matchingRule when we have time. You're absolutely right about DN not being a string. It's just shocking that LDAP ran into this catch 22 since static groups are driven by DNs: one just expects it to work. Alex On 10/8/07, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > I just fixed the potential NPE which occurs in certain cases (for > instance, when you have a 0 count for a node : the matching rule was > null, but was not assumed to be null, when the MR was transformed to > Equality if there is more than one element. Now, when you get a null, > the Equality is used in any case). > > Tests are passing just OK, without modification. > > On 10/8/07, Alex Karasulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds good to me. However let's let this one sit in the head for a > while > > since it has > > potentially wide reaching effects. It effects the semantics of search > and > > there are several > > things that I cannot easily foresee. So I want to think about this one a > > little bit. > > > > Alex > > > > On 10/8/07, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Cordialement, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com >
