Re: Net::LDAP::Util::canonical_dn

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:00:19PM -0600, Clif Harden wrote:
> It may be the easy way out, but I think it is the best option. It gives
> the user the choice on how the data is present back to him.

I agree.

> > What default should we have? ;-) We'd want to preserve the existing
> > interface (I guess) so we need a default.
> 
> 
> I think the default should be the current way perl-ldap handles the data,
> encode => none.  If the user does not care about encoding no changes
> to his software would be needed.
> 
> If the user wants the canonicalizer, encode => canonical.
> If the user wants base 64, encode => base64.  Would this require the perl
> base64 module?
> 
> 
> I have no idea how much coding work this would be.


this seems quite reasonable, and would not be too difficult to do.

> As I was writing this message I thought of something we need
> to comprehend.
> 
> Mark Wilcox put dumping data in XML format, how is our encoding 
> going to affect these methods.  I am sure we will need to add 
> attribute tags specifing the encoding method used on the data
> if the data is encoded.  

In DSML the DN is base64 encoded if it contains special characters
and then it is flagged as such (IIRC).

Graham.


> 
> 
> Since I forgot to copy the perl-ldap list on my first response to you,
> I have included the perl-ldap list on this reply.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Clif 
> 
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