Re: (ITS#5663) Declaring substitute syntax as LDAP syntax

[ando@sys-net.it]

Michael Ströder wrote:
> Pierangelo Masarati wrote:
>> I have a patch
>> <ftp://ftp.openldap.org/incoming/pierangelo-masarati-x-subst-2008-09-16.patch>
>> that implements support for "ldapsyntax" (slapd.conf) and
>> "olcLdapSyntaxes" (back-config) in order to allow run-time configuration
>> of syntaxes that have NULL handlers and thus need to have the X-SUBST
>> extension in place.
> 
> You rock! I'll give it a try.
> 
>> ldapsyntax ( <my-syntax-oid> NAME 'MySyntax'
>>     DESC 'this is the description'
>>     X-SUBST 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.15 )
> 
> Looking at RFC 4512 the SyntaxDescription does not mention NAME
> (although I'd appreciate it would).

Correct.  I was mistaken by the presence of the field in the schema 
stucture of include/ldap_schema.h:

typedef struct ldap_syntax {
         char *syn_oid;          /* REQUIRED */
         char **syn_names;       /* OPTIONAL */
         char *syn_desc;         /* OPTIONAL */
         LDAPSchemaExtensionItem **syn_extensions; /* OPTIONAL */
} LDAPSyntax;

We should probably trim it, although it could (would) break binary 
interoperability at the libldap level.  I'd note rfc4517 does not 
mention extensions, either...

p.


Ing. Pierangelo Masarati
OpenLDAP Core Team

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