Re: symbolic syntax definition (ITS#1907)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

The man page is in error.  There are no pre-defined OID macros
in OpenLDAP.  Syntaxes in schema_init.c have no NAME field,
the RFC 2252 ABNF doesn't allow it.

Kurt

At 07:07 AM 2002-06-27, h.nardmann@secunet.de wrote:
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>Reading the man page I thought that such keywords like Binary or 
>DirectoryString are known to the parser? And then I found the definitions in 
>schema_init.c starting at line 3687 (server source tree in OpenLDAP 2.0.25). 
>How can I use these definitions?
>
>On Tuesday 25 June 2002 23:22, you wrote:
>> The server knows no symbolic names for syntaxes.  In
>> LDAP, syntaxes are generally referred to by OID.  You
>> can, of course, add OID macros (see slapd.conf) if
>> you prefer to use symbolic names.
>>
>> Kurt
>>
>> At 07:53 AM 2002-06-25, h.nardmann@secunet.de wrote:
>> >Full_Name: Heiko Nardmann
>> >Version: 2.0.25
>> >OS: Solaris 8
>> >URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/
>> >Submission from: (NULL) (194.112.101.130)
>> >
>> >
>> >I am trying to use the string "Binary" as a syntax definition as follows:
>> >
>> >attributetype ( my-attributetype:1 NAME 'my-attributetype' SYNTAX 'Binary'
>> > )
>> >
>> >Then I get:
>> >
>> >Unexpected token before
>> >
>> >I also tried
>> >
>> >attributetype ( my-attributetype:1 NAME 'my-attributetype' SYNTAX Binary )
>> >
>> >Then I get:
>> >
>> >OID Binary not recognized
>
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