Re: attribute pointers

["Dane Foster" <dfoster@equitytg.com>]

John said>This will work *if* the application that wants to see 'gender'

So what happens if the application modified the value of the gender
attribute? Will the applications that want to see 'sex' get the new values
if the gender attribute value is modified?  In a nutshell, are multi-named
attribute values bi-directional?

Dane Foster
http://www.equitytg.com
954.360.9800
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Dalbec" <jpdalbec@cc.ysu.edu>
To: "Dane Foster" <dfoster@equitytg.com>
Cc: "'openldap-software@openldap.org'" <openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 12:14 PM
Subject: Re: attribute pointers


>
>
> Dane Foster wrote:
> >
> > Hello all.  I'm trying to find out if it is possible to use an attribute
as
> > a link to another attribute in the same object class, similar to
symlinks on
> > Unix filesystems.  For example, if I have an attribute named 'sex' and I
> > would like to create another attribute named 'gender' that points to
'sex',
> > is there a way to do this in OpenLDAP?
>
> No, AFAIK, but you can redefine the 'sex' attribute with two names:
>
>         NAME ( 'sex' 'gender' )
>
> This will work *if* the application that wants to see 'gender'
> explicitly requests 'gender'.  Applications that just request '*' will
> see 'sex' because it's listed first.  Otherwise I expect you will need
> to create a separate 'gender' attribute and store the information twice
> with all the synchronization headaches that implies.
>
> >
> > I'm asking this because I'm trying to force some applications that use
LDAP
> > to use a global directory namespace.  The reason I can't do that now is
> > because the applications use different names to represent the same
things.
> > Any help or guidance is appreciated.  Thanx.
> >
> > Dane Foster
> > http://www.equitytg.com
> > 954.360.9800
>