Re: attributes order

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@zimbra.com>]

--On Sunday, February 21, 2010 1:14 AM +0300 Mihamina Rakotomandimby 
<mihamina@gulfsat.mg> wrote:

> Manao ahoana, Hello, Bonjour,
> Hi all
> I have 3 custom attributes:
> - actionDate
> - commentContent
> - commentId
>
> I populated my OpenLDAP with a shell script and "ldapadd", and when
> searching with "ldapsearch", attributes are displayed all in the order:
>
> - actionDate
> - commentContent
> - commentId
>
> Now I use the Ocaml LDAP binding (ocamldap) to add several entries.
>
> While searching again, entries added with shell+ldap has the same
> atribute order display, but the ones added through the Ocaml binding
> are displayed in a different order. That mean while displaying all the
> objects (stricly of the same objectClass), I have a mixed attribute
> order display.
>
> How could I force openLDAP to always display attributes in the same
> order for one objectClass?

There is no ordering guarantee for attribute display.  Why would anything 
need to depend on that?  You can use an overlay to order the values of 
given attributes, but none of that is part of the LDAP specs.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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