Re: Empty LDIF values (ITS#2218)

[Kurt@OpenLDAP.org]

A fix has been committed to HEAD.   Please test.

At 01:40 PM 2002-12-01, michael@stroeder.com wrote:
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>>From posting to openldap-devel mailing list:
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>Michael Ströder writes:
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>>> If I set the RootDSE's DN in the LDIF with a line containing "dn:" it works.
>
>>> But with "dn: " I get "root_dse: could not parse entry".
>>> 
>>>  From my understanding of RFC 2849 both should work.
>>> 
>>> dn-spec                  = "dn:" (FILL distinguishedName /
>>>                                    ":" FILL base64-distinguishedName)
>>> 
>>> FILL                     = *SPACE
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>Indeed.  Also from RFC 2849:
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>      5)  When a zero-length attribute value is to be included directly
>          in an LDIF file, it MUST be represented as
>          AttributeDescription ":" FILL SEP.
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>The libldif code to return different values for "attr:" and "attr: "
>looks like a feature, since it handles both cases distinctly, but I
>can't understand why.  ("if ( *s == '\0' )" line 117 vs. line 146.)
>Since an empty value can be returned in any case, it looks better to
>remove the error for "attr: " and return an empty value then too.