Re: constraint overlay (ITS#3292)

[kartik.subbarao@hp.com]

Thanks for the feedback Kurt. Neil is the best person to respond on 
these points. He is on vacation right now, I believe till the end of 
August. He will respond when he gets back.

Regards,

	-Kartik

Kurt D. Zeilenga wrote:
> The first issue that concerned me is the charset constraint
> and use of iconv.  The code appears to be incorrect because,
> if I understand the iconv API, it doing a conversion between
> X and X (where X is the specified charset to constrain to)
> instead of between UTF-8 encoded Unicode and X.  Note that
> in slapd(8), attribute (and assertion) values of Directory
> String syntax (and other character string syntaxes) are
> stored as UTF-8 encoded Unicode.
> 
> The second issue is that iconv(3) routines are not widely
> available (in default installs of supported operating system
> platforms).  Hence, I suggest the code only include charset
> constraint support of iconv(3) is available.  This implies
> a requirement to auto-detect iconv(3) existance to enable
> the feature.
> 
> The third issue is that the module linking doesn't include
> -liconv (which existance should also be auto-detected).
> 
> The fourth issue is documentation.  A manpage should be provided.
> 
> Another issue I have is whether this should be in slapd/overlays
> or in contrib/slapd-modules.  But that's more of issue for
> the committers to resolve that you.
> 
> Regards, Kurt
> 
> 
> At 10:12 PM 8/18/2004, kartik_subbarao@hp.com wrote:
> 
>>Full_Name: Kartik Subbarao
>>Version: 2.2.15
>>OS: Linux
>>URL: ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/kartik_subbarao-constraint-040819.tgz
>>Submission from: (NULL) (69.240.143.154)
>>
>>
>>I have uploaded Neil Dunbar's constraint overlay, and patches to auxiliary build
>>files such as the Makefile.in in the overlays directory, the top level
>>configure.in, and portable.h.in. The constraint overlay limits the values which
>>can be placed into an attribute, over and above the limits placed by the schema.
>>It traps only LDAP adds and modify commands (and only seeks to control the add
>>and modify value mods of a modify). The constraint can be specified as a
>>character set (e.g. US-ASCII) or as a regular expression.
> 
>