On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Lakshmi B <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > The org.apache.directory.shared.ldap.model.schema.AttributeType class is > having two data members or properties named as isSingleValued, and > isCollective. The names are specifying that they are used to indicate > whether the attribute holds a single value or multiple values. > But there is no need to declare two members to indicate whether the > AttributeType is single valued or collective. > There may be some difference between these two, but I am unable to > understand that difference. > Any one can help me to know the difference between these two members > (isSingleValued and isCollective)?
isCollective() has another meaning, it indicates if it is an "Collective Attribute", see RFC3671 [1]. Kind Regards, Stefan [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3671
