Re: Extensible filters and substring searches

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

--On Monday, May 27, 2019 3:07 PM +0200 Côme Chilliet <come@opensides.be> 
wrote:

> Le lundi 27 mai 2019, 12:43:51 CEST Michael Ströder a écrit :
> > On 5/27/19 12:10 PM, Côme Chilliet wrote:
> > > I'm trying to understand if it is possible or not to do a substring
> > > search on an attribute which does not specify a substring matching
> > > rule.
> > Which LDAP syntax is used in the attribute type description?
>
> Well I'm interested in knowing if it's possible with any kind of
> attribute, but the usecase I came across was with ipHostNumber:
>
> attributetype ( 1.3.6.1.1.1.1.19 NAME 'ipHostNumber'
>      DESC 'IP address'
>      EQUALITY caseIgnoreIA5Match
>      SYNTAX 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.26{128} )

That's an IA5 string, so use either:

caseExactIA5SubstringsMatch
or
caseIgnoreIA5SubstringsMatch

I.e., the matching rules should match the syntax.

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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