Re: schema attributes method

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Justin <da...@io...> wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> 
> I am using version 0.22 of the perl library and Netscape Directory Server 
> version 4.12.  Whenver I retrieve the list of attributes using something
> like:
> 
>       my $schema = $ldap->schema("cn=Schema");
>       my @atts = $schema->attributes();
> 
> the array returned from attributes() is all upper case.  However, the
> values returned from the MUST and MAY listings for an object class,
> obtained by:
> 
>       my @may = $schema->item($oid, "may");
> 
> Returns a listing that is in Mixed Case, as it is returned from the
> directory.
> 
> 
> Can anyone explain why $schema->attributes does not return a mixed case
> listing?

Attribute names are of course not case-sensitive, so returning them in all
upper-case does not really matter.

But it is curious that it is inconsistent between the calls. Possibly the
attributes() call is returning the names after they've been internally
canonicalized, and the item call isn't. I think I can see this being done
in the _fixup_entry routine. Well, there are a bunch of calls to 'uc' in
there which weren't in the Schema module in perl-ldap 0.20, which returns
mixed case attributes from both calls.

Does calling $schema->item($oid) return upper- or lower-case stuff?

Cheers,

Chris