BTW: eDirectory has had LDAP Event Services which allows a client or a server process to register for events and take an action.
https://www.novell.com/documentation/developer/ldapover/ldap_enu/data/ag7bleo.html -- -jim Jim Willeke On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Mike Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > I was very close to having one working at some point in October or > November, > but couldn't quite get it. I created a class, uploaded the code into LDAP, > and it was triggerable, but there didn't seem to be a way to they affect > entries in the LDAP server. > > The use case I was working on was using the addition of a user into a group > triggering the application of a specific security policy. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Emmanuel Lécharny [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 11:25 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Exploring triggers > > > > Le 02/02/2017 à 17:04, Sathyanarayan, Harish a écrit : > > Hi, > > > > Triggers in ApacheDS seems to be a fascinating topic from an LDAP server > > pointof view, though I do not find any specific examples or usages > around > > that. Please suggest anything that would be worth looking at that is out > > there. > > Hi, > > this was an experiment, done a decade ago. We didn't had time to keep > going, > but the code is still present in the server. > > There is some available material here : http://people.apache.org/~ersiner/ > > It *has* worked, and I still do think it's a valuable feature. > Typically, that could be useful to manage users/group updates, or to > trigger > some code execution on updates. > > Right now, I'm pretty sure it's not anymore working due to the migration > from JNDI to the LDAP API (trigger code is still depending on JNDI, while > teh rest of teh server depends on teh LDAP API). However, I don't think > that > reviving teh effort would take a lot of time, so if you are interested in > it, I can drive you through the existing code. > > > -- > Emmanuel Lecharny > > Symas.com > directory.apache.org > >
