Hello,
first off thanks for a great and sophisticated open
source directory server =)
I do have a few questions regarding the API and how to
achieve certain things.
Im working without a server.xml and have followed the
example of embedding apache ds into a web app.
1. Is it possible to start apache-ds without the
default partition ? Progamatically..
2. Is there already a MutablePartition configuration
or similar which does not save any data to disk ? I
want everything which is normally stored under the
partition dir to be only created in memory (schema
etc) because the server itself does not contain any
data but queries other services for data and acts as a
pass through.
3. I have - after much code digging in the server code
- been able to create my own Interceptor to modify
search results (figuring out how to create your own
namingenumeration and searchresult was a real pain
since they are interfaces). I know that since 1.5.x
triggers are available - i did not really figure out
the difference here. When should you use a trigger -
and when an interceptor ? Triggers are implemented as
specific interceptors afaik. Even tho in the svn is a
sample class - im not sure how to use it - how to add
it to your partition configuration etc...
4. The order of interceptors is not quiet clear to me,
i added an interceptor to the default interceptor list
- but calling next.search(..) never returned any value
it seems - the query to the local partition must have
been done after my interceptor - so i moved the
interceptor to the beginning - and indeed next.search
returned some data to modify. I thought that the
retrievale of data would be handled by another process
and not by a default interceptor ?
5. How do you connect your apache to a different
external backend? Is Interceptors the only way or are
their some build in backend connectors ? I.e. the
simplest custom backend would be that apache ds
receives an ldap query - and the custom backend logic
from apache ds would translate this into SQL queries
like select * from user where user=ldapquery or
something like that. Currently i would do that with an
interceptor.
Thank you very much
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