Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:
Hi guys,
a short question about the way OpenLDAP (last version) exposes the
entryUUID during replication. UUID is supposed to be binary :
RFC 4530 :
*2.1 UUID Syntax*
A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) [RFC4122
<http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.html>] is a 16-octet (128-
bit) value that identifies an object. The ASN.1 [X.680] type UUID is
defined to represent UUIDs as follows:
UUID ::= OCTET STRING (SIZE(16))
-- constrained to an UUID
[RFC4122<http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.html>]
When the UUID is transfered in the Syncrepl cookies, it's as a String,
not as a byte[] (with a format like xxx-yyyy-zzzz, kindof). Is there any
reason not to transfer the UUID as a byte[] ?
Could be an oversight. RFC4533 and the syncprov implementation were not always
in sync with each other. (ironic...)
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