> > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 3:58 AM, Francesco Chicchiriccò < > [email protected]> wrote:
On 23/07/2012 19:12, Daniel DeFreez wrote: > > Hi, > > One of the main goals we have for Syncope is to be able to synchronize > photographs from a database into LDAP. When defining schema in Syncope, it > does not seem like there is a suitable attribute type for jpegPhoto (part > of inetOrgPerson). I have tried using string, but that does not work > correctly. Is it possible to use Syncope to synchronize attributes holding > binary data, such as photographs? > > In LDAPv3 there is a special OID for jpeg attribute types, > 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.28. > Microsoft uses attributeSyntax 2.5.5.10, which is just an octet sting. It > seems like supporting an octet string type in Syncope would be useful. > > > Hi Daniel, > as you've correctly found out, Syncope does not currently support binary > attributes: as you can read from [1], in fact, only String, Enum, Boolean, > Long, Double, Date types are supported. > > Anyway, this is a nice add-on for our roadmap [2], so I've just added such > feature to next release. > > Implementing this support in an overlay of the current release > (1.0.0-incubating) - e.g. only for YOUR project - would be quite a > challenging task because it would involve modifications in almost any > component and layer (including database schema). > > Hope this clarifies a bit. > Regards. > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Schema%2C+attributes+and+mapping#Schema%2Cattributesandmapping-Schema > [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SYNCOPE/Roadmap > > -- > Francesco Chicchiriccò > > ASF Member, Apache Cocoon PMC and Apache Syncope PPMC > Memberhttp://people.apache.org/~ilgrosso/ > > Thank you Francesco. I am happy to see it on the roadmap.
