> At present, libldap does not include convenience functions for > most (any?) of these extensions... however, convenience functions > are certainly not necessary to make use of any of these extensions > (with a server that supports them). One can encode and > decode the necessary protocol elements using base functions > provided in libldap. > > As slapd(8) does implement the client side of LDAP Sync, it would > be nice to extract out its LDAP Sync encoding/decoding functions > into libldap convenience functions. But until then, that would > be your LDAP sync example code (e.g., slapd/syncrepl.c).
As far as I can see, slapd/syncrepl.c already contains a ldap_sync_search() function, which acts as a LDAPSync asynchronous request. Maybe it could be renamed ldap_sync_search_x(), so that ldap_sync_search() corresponds to ldap_sync_search_x() when a NULL context is passed. What's not yet isolated is a corresponding result parse function, which is currently embedded in do_syncrep2(). The rest of the API should take care of filling the syncinfo_t structure, which should likely be as opaque as possible much like LDAP (LDAPSync?). (Better move this to -devel, anyway). p. -- Pierangelo Masarati mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ing. Pierangelo Masarati Responsabile Open Solution SysNet s.n.c. Via Dossi, 8 - 27100 Pavia - ITALIA http://www.sys-net.it ------------------------------------------ Office: +39.02.23998309 Mobile: +39.333.4963172 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------
