On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:15 AM, Kiran Ayyagari <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:50 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 2/15/11 9:15 PM, Kiran Ayyagari wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 2/15/11 8:00 PM, Kiran Ayyagari wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny<[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> the compareTo method has a semantic that probably does not applies to >>>>>> the >>>>>> Dn >>>>>> class : either two DNs are equals, or they are different, but they >>>>>> aren't >>>>>> superior or inferior, except if one is the parent of the other. >>>>>> >>>>>> As we already have a isParent and isChild methods, I suggest we remove >>>>>> the >>>>>> compareTo() methods (which is never used) and not implemen the >>>>>> Comparable<Dn> interface. >>>>>> >>>>> I suggest we keep this, think of ordering the Entry objects while >>>>> performing an export >>>>> (sorting a huge number of entries won't be the ideal case, but when we >>>>> have a few entries which are fetched in an adhoc manner(i.e without >>>>> performing repetitive one level searches)) >>>> >>>> The thing is that there is no way to order a list of DNs, as there is no >>>> such a MatchingRule as DnOrderingMatch. How do you order two DNs which >>>> RDN >>>> don't have the same AttributeType ? >>>> >>>> I have checked RFC 4517, and after having read it, I saw that comparing >>>> two >>>> DNs is just meant to check that they are equal, or not. No order is >>>> implied. >>> >>> how about using the isParent() and isChild() methods for that inside >>> the compareTo() >> >> yes, but still it's not possible to compare 2 DNs with the same parent... >> CompareTo() for DNs simply does not make sense :) > hmmm, just wondering why can't we compare the normalized values(which > are strings) of two DNs by the above I mean for equality, and we have isParent() if it is higher in hierarchy and isChild() otherwise, I see that semantically it doesn't make *much* sense to say 'compare two DNs' but still we can *order* DNs and that is where this method is helpful >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Cordialement, >> Emmanuel Lécharny >> www.iktek.com >> >> > > > > -- > Kiran Ayyagari >
-- Kiran Ayyagari
