Re: Returning Partial Results for an operation

["Jim Sermersheim" <jimse@novell.com>]

If the multi-entry operation specification allows for partial results, wouldn't the traditional abandon operation work? i.e.

Client             Server
----------------------------------------
Multi-Delete ----->
      <----------- 0-n partial responses
Abandon ---------->
      <----------- remaining unsent partial responses

I do however, wish that abandon had a response.

>>> "Haripriya S" <SHARIPRIYA@novell.com> 12/18/00 10:15:24 PM >>>

LDAP clients today, can start an LDAP operation, and consume the results till the end or abort the operation midway by sending a 'abandon' and not receive any results that were not sent by the server before it received the abandon. It seems that at least in multi-entry operations, it would be useful if a client can send an indication to the server to 'stop' the operation, but still send results that have been generated but not yet sent for the operation. This is like an abandon operation but with a reply. Does this sound like a useful feature? I would like to hear comments on this.

Thanks and Regards,
Haripriya