Hi guys,
following the two mails I sent today, I'd like to give a bit more heads
up about the pb we are facing
Currently, if we want to get the Dn/Rdn as a String, we have two methods
to do so :
- getName() which returns the User provided Dn's name
- getNormName() which returns the normalized Dn
The toString() method calls getName() internally.
So far, so good, except that it's not enough. There is a confusion
between a 'normalized' DN and a 'Printable' Dn. Let's see with an
example. The following Dn :
"cn= Exa\+mple one "
once parsed, will return the following results :
getName() : "cn= Exa\+mple one "
getNormName() : "cn=Exa\+mple one"
If the Dn is schema aware, the result will be slightly different :
getName() : "cn= Exa\+mple one "
getNormName() : "2.5.4.3=exa\\+mple one"
Now, the problem is that the normalized value is only useful when
manipulating a Dn or a Rdn as a String. There are cases where we want to
compare the Rdn with some AttributeTypeAndValue. For instance, if we
create an entry like :
dn: cn= Exa\+mple one
Objectclass: top
ObjectClass: person
sn: example
cn: exa+mple one
then the server will blow chunks because the CN attribute cannot be
compared to the Rdn ("exa\+mple one" is not equal to "exa+mple one").
I'm not sure right now if the solution would be to normalize the Rdn
again (removing the escaped chars) or to modify the comparison between a
Rdn and an Attribute Value.
Right now, I'm more inclined to investigate the second option, but it
might not work.
In any case, this is a hell of painful issue...
Thoughts ?
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Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com
