Hi guys, as we are currently voting the 1.0.0-M30 release of teh LDAP API, I'd like to provide a quick status. The idea is to know what's missing to get a first RC, and I do think we are not that far.
What are the critical features we need to add in the RC ? Here is a short list : - Support of referral chasing (DIRAPI-61, DIRAPI-179). This is not that complex to add, I would say it's a 2/3 days work, max (tests included). The idea is to gather all the referrals response we get, then when we are done with the normal entries, start chasing the referrals one by one. As we may get more referrals, we have to take care of potential cycles, and hops (cycle must be detected, and the number of hops must be limited). - Make the API threadsafe (DIRAPI-237) This is a bit complex, as we have to secure the shared structure we use to process the incoming responses. I would say that 5 days of work should be enough for this task, but tests might be a bit complex to prove we are correct. - StartTLS hostname verification (DIRAPI-69 and DIRAPI-72 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRAPI-72>) Probably something we want to add into the API before the RC. It's convenient. - OpenLDAP schema parsing (DIRAPI-154) Radovan is working on it. I can give a hand if needed... - TLS closure support (DIRAPI-136) We don't yet support the TLS closure. Basically, once TLS is started, we can just close the connection. Not ultra critical, but really convenient to have ! - Exceptions (DIRAPI-116) It would be very cool to review the Exceptions being thrown by the API methods, to make them consistent, before cutting a RC, otherwise we will be stuck with the wrong exceptions for a very long time. - Documentation There are a lot of missing Javadoc, and the web site *has* to be updated... So, we are not that far, but still, there is work to do. I think we can get a RC out in one month of work. I also think that it would be valuable to get it out soon, it's more than 5 years we are working on the API, and it's already stable enough to be used in production, we are just hit by what I call the 'Debian syndrom'... Thoughs ?
