Extensibility of LDAPExtendedOperation

["Steve Sonntag" <vtag@novell.com>]

Rob,

The classes for extended operation/response are not
extensible in the sense that it is not possible upon receipt
of an extended response with a given OID for an application
to specify the class to instantiate.  

The LDAPExtendedOperation class needs a register method
similar to the one specified in LDAPControl.

This would allow the specification of classes that
extend LDAPExtendedResponse to be instantiated
automatically by the API upon receipt of the specified
OID.

The code could read something like:


2.16.4 register

public static void register(String oid, Class controlClass)

Register a class to be instantiated on receipt of an
ldap extended response with the given oid.  Any
previous registration for the oid is overridden.  The
controllClass MUST be an extension of LDAPExtendedResponse.

Parameters are:

   oid    The object Identifier of the Control

   controlClass A class which can instantiate an LDAPControl.

Any thoughts, comments?

-Steve