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Alex Karasulu commented on DIRSERVER-1104:
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The integration tests fail on windows. This is where the bug clearly shows
itself but *NIX can be made to show it as well.
> Mixing Attribute value types results in write failures
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> Key: DIRSERVER-1104
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-1104
> Project: Directory ApacheDS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: core
> Affects Versions: bigbang, 1.5.1
> Reporter: Alex Karasulu
> Assignee: Emmanuel Lecharny
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: bigbang
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> Attachments: error.log, offending.ldif
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> This new bug is really serious and tricky. It has eluded us but comes out now
> thanks to a crazy size effect it has on Windows.
> First a characterization of the bug. An entry (Attributes object) may be
> valid and still contain an Attribute which has both byte[] and String array
> values. Some may suggest that this is invalid since attributes are,
> according to their syntax, either binary of human readable. However this is
> not the case. The fact that an attributeType is human readable has no
> bearing on how the user supplies the value. Human readable data can be
> provided as binary information so long as it still conforms to the syntax of
> the attribute.
> Here's an example entry which would cause such a failure:
> dn: cn=person1,ou=system
> objectClass: organizationalPerson
> cn: person1
> sn: sn_person1
> seealso: cn=Good One,ou=people,o=sevenSeas
> seealso:: Y249QmFkIEXDqWvDoCxvdT1wZW9wbGUsbz1zZXZlblNlYXM=
> This entry will cause the AttributeSerializerUtils.serialize() method to blow
> a ClassCastException. Note the log of the error can be found attached to
> this issue.
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