On 04/29/2012 09:49 AM, Oved Ourfalli wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> In case the namingContexts field contains more than one naming context, we 
> have no way of knowing which one is the required one.
> We take the first one. In active directory, for example (and as far as I 
> understand in the newest free-ipa) you have a defaultNamingContext field, and 
> if so we take it, and it contains only one naming context. 
> 
> As you see in the code below, we have a "special" treatment for RHDS, as it 
> always contains "o=netscaperoot" in the namingContexts field (not necessary 
> at the beginning of the list), so we filter it out.
> 
> It was enough for now, but I agree that if adding new LDAP providers, which 
> usually have a more complex and unpredictable data in the namingContext 
> field, then we would probably need to ask the user to specify the naming 
> context for us, and if he didn't specify it then assume it is identical to 
> the domain name.
> 
> Oved

Another idea -
Now that we provide the provider type in manage domains, maybe we should
add a logic for getting naming contexts based on the provider type.
Thoughts on this?


> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sharad Mishra" <[email protected]>
>> To: [email protected]
>> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:51:25 AM
>> Subject: [Engine-devel] namingcontexts getting ignored.
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>     I enter "getDefaultNamingContextFromNamingContexts()" with
>> namingContexts set to -
>>
>> namingcontexts: CN=SCHEMA, CN=LOCALHOST, CN=IBMPOLICIES, O=IBM.COM,
>> O=DELETED.IBM.COM
>>
>>     But this method only takes the first case "CN=SCHEMA" and ignores
>> the rest. Actually I am interested in "O=IBM.COM".
>>     Is this working as designed or needs improvement?
>>
>> -Sharad Mishra
>> IBM
>>
>> public class RootDSEData {
>>      private String domainDN = null;
>>      private LdapProviderType ldapProviderType = null;
>>      private final static String RHDS_NAMING_CONTEXT =
>>      "o=netscaperoot";
>>
>>      public static String
>> getDefaultNamingContextFromNamingContexts(Attribute namingContexts) {
>>          for (int index = 0; index < namingContexts.size(); ++index)
>>          {
>>              String namingContext;
>>              try {
>>                  namingContext = (String) namingContexts.get(index);
>>              } catch (NamingException e) {
>>                  return null;
>>              }
>>              if
>>              (!RHDS_NAMING_CONTEXT.equalsIgnoreCase(namingContext))
>>              {
>>                  return namingContext;
>>              }
>>          }
>>          return null;
>>      }
>>
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