On 19/05/11 7:22 PM, Kiran Ayyagari wrote:
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny<[email protected]> wrote:
On 5/19/11 10:17 AM, Matt Doran wrote:
Hi there,
I'm using a *very* basic custom LDAP partition in Apache DS (it's an older
version 1.5.5, because at the time of writing this was the best version to
get a custom LDAP partition working).
We are using this embedded in our product to mimic a "real" LDAP server
for a very specific purpose (mainly around authentication and a very basic
user attribute lookup).
One of the services that is interacting with us now is performing a root
search (I'm not sure if that's the right term). But basically they are now
doing a search without providing an search base DN (i.e. the search base is
empty ""). See the attached image for a part of the wireshark dump for this
search.
The problem we're having is that when we receive this search, the
"search()" method of our custom LDAP partition is not being called. I
haven't been able to find the answer in your docs (probably because I don't
know the terminology to search for :)
So I'm wondering how we can hook into these baseless searches? Is there
a way to set-up the partition so we will be passed these search requests?
Is there a way to "plug-in" to handle these searches and modify them or
direct them in some way to our custom partition.
'Root' searches are supposed to work well. The way it works is that it looks
into all the naming contexts present in the RootDSE entry. I guess that you
have such a naming context present, otherwise you would not be able to do
any search in your specific partition.
It may be a bug in 1.5.5. I suggest you quickly do a test with the latest
version (1.5.7) to see if the problem still exists (we fixed a large number
of bugs between 1.5.5. and 1.5.7). If the proble still exists, then it's
most certainly a bug and deserves a JIRA.
this was fixed in 1.5.7, and if you migrate to 1.5.7 then it will work.
Many thanks for your quick responses!!
When I originally developed this, 1.5.6 was the most recent version. I
tried creating an LDAPPartition on this version but had a number of
problems (all the samples showed how to implement this for 1.5.5 and
there were some large API changes under the covers). So I stuck with 1.5.5.
The following article also seems to still talk about 1.5.5. -
http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.5/61-how-to-write-a-simple-custom-partition-for-apacheds.html
Are their samples of how to implement a custom partition in 1.5.7?
I'd love to be able to do a quick verification that the root search is
fixed before doing a full port.
Thanks again,
Matt
