Re: Attribute Syntax

[Craig Dunigan <cdunigan@doit.wisc.edu>]

We do this that way in some places (ordered values separated by '$').  In
others, we do it by writing the "sub-attributes," if you will, in XML,
then Perl DataDump (you could Java serialize, if you prefer) the XML
string to the actual attribute value.  Or you could just dump/serialize a
hash into the value.

All these require custom programming - I don't know of any pure LDAP way
to do it.  What you're really looking for is *ordered* multi-value 
attributes, or an attribute "hash," neither of which exist in OpenLDAP.  
They might in some commercial LDAP product, I can't say.

Craig Dunigan
IS Network Services Specialist
UW-Madison, DoIT, Middleware

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Daniel Merino wrote:

> Yes, but I want to have several values in each multi-value, like this:
> 
> Attribute value 1: Name-->John, Phone-->5556789, City: Boston
> Attribute value 2: Name-->Phil, Phone-->5559876, City: Chicago
> 
> I think I could write them like this: John$5556789$Boston, 
> Phil$5559876$Chicago  and filter the values before use them.
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> But I want to know if there is an attribute type similar to a struct.
> Thanks for your answer.
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> Eliezer E Chavez wrote:
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> > Normally the attribute value is mult-valuei, you have to specify if its
> > value is single-value
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> > suomi hasler wrote:
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> >> description:     ???
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> >> suomi
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> >> Daniel Merino wrote:
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> >>> Hi everybody.
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> >>> Does it exist a multi-valued attribute's sintax where I can insert 
> >>> two or more separated strings in each attribute's value?
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> >>> I want to insert in an attribute value two data, i.e. "Police" & 
> >>> "911". I know I can unify the two strings like "Police@911", but I 
> >>> wonder if I can't put this in an attribute without using my own 
> >>> filters to insert and get the data.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry if the question is stupid, but I'm a newbie in LDAP.
> >>> Thanks for your help.
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