hello again, I searched a bit and found a paper by luke howard about extending openldap what is the state of native plugins with respect to slapi plugins? which is better (read: simpler to implement) for the need expressed below? Indeed, I also found a comment by Howard Chu on http://jpmens.net/2008/07/11/i-finally-get-openldap-triggers/ """"SLAPI is defined by Sun/Netscape, you can refer to their documentation. Probably would do better discussing this on the openldap-technical mailing list. And of course, I would have written a native slapd overlay instead, SLAPI is slower and clumsier."
I was able to find some documentation about slapi on oracle site, but I can't manage to find any docs about native plugins. maybe I'm just stupid :-) slapd.plugin manpage seems to be about slapi plugins only for those who know slapi plugins: am I right to believe the computed attribute created with "object" type plugins are dynamic? I mean they are not stored in the backend but "created" each time the attribute is requested, right? thanks in advance for any insights. best regards, Jephté CLAIN 2015-12-04 13:46 GMT+04:00 Jephte Clain <[email protected]>: > hello, > > I may have a need soon to implement "computed" attributes in LDAP, to > accommodate dumb clients that are unable to properly update the database > > for example, an attribute masterAttr may have values like "A:B" (its value > updated by the dumb client), but other clients need the A or B part > separately. So whenever masterAttr is updated with value "A:B", > firstPartAttr have to be updated with "A" and secondPartAttr with "B" > > what are my options to achieve this? > - is there an overlay like slapo-rwm but for attribute values? I searched > but did not found anything. So I guess the answer is no. > - using a combination of back-perl, back-relay and slapo-translucent? is > that even possible > - using back-sock as an overlay to monitor modifications and update the > modified objects accordingly? > - a script that monitor the accesslog database and update the modified > objects accordingly? > - biting the bullet and writing an overlay myself? > > before diving too deep into this issue (and possibly drowning), I figured I > would ask. any thoughts? ideas? > > thanks in advance, best regards, > Jephté CLAIN > > -- > *Jephté CLAIN | Développeur, Intégrateur d'applications* > Service Systèmes d'Information > Direction des Systèmes d'Information <http://dsi.univ-reunion.fr> > Tél: +262 262 93 86 31 <tel:+262262938631> || Gsm: +262 692 29 58 24 > <tel:+262692295824> > www.univ-reunion.fr <http://www.univ-reunion.fr> || Facebook > <http://www.facebook.com/pages/Universit%C3%A9-de-La-R%C3%A9union-OFFICIEL/197176816990430> > || Twitter <http://twitter.com/univ_reunion> -- Jephté CLAIN | Développeur, Intégrateur d'applications Service Système d'Information Direction des Systèmes d'Information Tél: +262 262 93 86 31 || Gsm: +262 692 29 58 24
