What would be usefull is the description of your AttributeType in your schema.
Can you provide it ? On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Kevin Kovach <[email protected]> wrote: > First, thanks for the response and information. > > But, I want this id to be a string. That's what I am after. When you say, > "If you pass something which can't be translated to a String, it will > consider it as a byte[], but that will fail when doing a search against > String value", what do you mean? Pass to what? The search method? Are you > talking about my filter? > > If so, I don't believe I'm passing anything that can't be translated to a > String. As I stated, in this example, I generate a random string of length > 25 and do a search for that to see if it is unique. Why it would consider > my random string a byte[]. > > Thanks again for the help. I appreciate it. > > - Kevin > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Kevin Kovach wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am currently running ApacheDS 1.5.4 on 64-bit Ubuntu. I have a Java >>> application that's storing objects in the directory. Those objects use a >>> custom schema with an auxiliary ojectclass that contains an id attribute. >>> That id is a 25 character string of alphanumeric characters, and I have >>> the >>> attribute set to a directory string. I create a random id for a certain >>> set of the objects, and when I generate a new one I first do a lookup to >>> make sure that it's unique in my DIT. >>> >>> When doing this uniqueness search, I sometimes but not always see the >>> following error returned from ApacheDS. I've changed my oid, the object >>> name, and hostname for some anonymity, but this is it in a nutshell... >>> >>> DEBUG httpSSLWorkerThread-8081-2 localhost - Got random id >>> eKsFGqG9CxKbmwlvGKFX6ajOV. Checking to see if its unique... >>> DEBUG httpSSLWorkerThread-8081-2 localhost - Performing LDAP search for >>> filter (myid=eKsFGqG9CxKbmwlvGKFX6ajOV) >>> ERROR httpSSLWorkerThread-8081-2 localhost - NamingException: [LDAP: error >>> code 80 - OTHER: failed for SearchRequest >>> baseDn : '2.5.4.11=users,0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.25=localhost' >>> filter : >>> '(MYOID.1.15=eKsFGqG9CxKbmwlvGKFX6ajOV:[9223372036854775807])' >>> scope : whole subtree >>> typesOnly : false >>> Size Limit : no limit >>> Time Limit : no limit >>> Deref Aliases : deref Always >>> attributes : >>> : java.lang.String cannot be cast to [B] >>> >>> I'm not sure I understand what this is telling me. Like I said, this does >>> not occurr every time either. I'm also confused as to what the >>> ':[9223372036854775807]' is appended to my filter? Any help or insight >>> would be appreciated. I will of course be happy to provide more detail as >>> needed. Thanks. >>> >>> >> >> First, the [blah] value in the filter is just there to give some >> information about the number of objects found using this index (here, it's >> -1L, as you don't have any index set up for this AttributeType). It's used >> for debug purpose. >> >> Now, I guess that your AttributeType is not defined as binary. What >> happends is that the serve consider the AttributeType to e HumanReadable, >> and stores the values as String. If you pass something which can't be >> translated to a String, it will consider it as a byte[], but that will fail >> when doing a search against String value (because comparing a byte[] and a >> String is not possible...). >> >> I would suggest you define this AttributeType to be binary, that should do >> the trick. >> >>> - Kevin >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> cordialement, regards, >> Emmanuel Lécharny >> www.iktek.com >> directory.apache.org >> >> >> > > > -- > "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." > > -- Winston Churchill > -- Regards, Cordialement, Emmanuel Lécharny www.iktek.com
