What is the semantic difference between a single wildcard and presence? They are the same :-) Single wildcard matched anything. So does presence!
BJ Hargrave Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM OSGi Fellow and CTO of the OSGi Alliance [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: +1 386 848 1781 mobile: +1 386 848 3788 "Anne Bening" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-04-10 13:18 Please respond to felix-dev@incubator.apache.org To felix-dev@incubator.apache.org cc Subject Re: Present v.s. substring filter strings On 4/10/07, Richard S. Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Annette Bening wrote: > > I'm trying to understand how to make a substring pattern that starts > > with a > > wildcard. IIUC, it will be interpreted as a present filter expression. > > Does anyone have any insight on this? > > Looking at the source, it definitely appears that Parser.java is > attempting to differentiate between "=*" and "=*foo"...I did a simple > test with the ldap Driver class and it correctly interpreted "(cn=*ab)" > and a SUBSTRING operation. Ahh, ok. Could you perhaps send me a simple expression that is failing? Nothing is failing. Just trying to grok the spec. What if I wanted to specify a single wildcard? - Anne
