Re: rdnMatch / RDN support (ITS#3207)

[jongchoi@OpenLDAP.org]

> >> >I expect that the rdnMatch rule
> >> >would allow filters like "(seeAlso:rdnMatch:=cn=All Staff)" in the
test
> >> >suite to match those entries whose seeAlso attribute contains "cn=All
> >> >Staff,ou=Groups,dc=example,dc=com".
> >>
> >> That would be more like a rdnLastComponentMatch or something.
> >
> > Does this deserve implementation outside the component matching context
?
> > It is always possible to perform a search on the last rdn by matching
the
> > attribute itself.
> > If there're other uses, then it would make sense to have
> > rdnLastComponentMatch.
> > The component matching suppor will include this case anyway...
>
> Well, if you're asserting a VALUE of the last RDN of
> a DN-valued attribute of an entry, then you cannot
> just search the entry.
> My seeAlso example was aimed at this.
>
> Ciao, Ando.

The syntax and component specific matching rules can be replaced by the
general component matching framework once it is in place.
If we still need to perform a specialized component matching without using
ComponentAssertion, then it might make sense to provide matching rule
aliases...
- Jong-Hyuk