Thanks, raised DIRSERVER-1274.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Norval Hope wrote: >> >> Hi Emmanuel, >> >> 1++ >> >> This was definitely a pain in some of my code that needed to deal with >> both JNDI Names and LdapDN's but couldn't deal with them >> interchangeably, as in the LdapDN case the toString() result was, as >> you say, pretty useless from most purposes. >> > > Yeah, I don't understand why I implemented the toString() methiod this way, > and stick with it for 2 years ... Sometime you have to step back and look at > the code from some distance to understand that something is wrong... >> >> As it happens Pierre-Arnaud and I exchanged an email about whether >> this behaviour was still the case inf 1.5.4 a few weeks back. I have >> some really dim-distant memory of discussing this with you a long time >> ago too - am I mistaken, or did you start a round of tidying this up >> once before? >> > > Not exactly. I initially started to implement the Paged Search Control, > needed to fix some code in the LdapProtocolHandlers to inject this control, > discussed about the way Referrals where handled and how we should change it > to make it easier to implement the control, and then found that dealing with > LdapURL where some DN with spaces are not exactly handled the best way > because we are using the toString() method made me thing that the toString() > method has to be changed. > > Sometime you better not pull some strings :) > > (btw, I still have to fix the typo you mailed me, but you'd better create a > JIRA, because it's buried in my mail stack ...) > > -- > -- > cordialement, regards, > Emmanuel Lécharny > www.iktek.com > directory.apache.org > > >
