Re: Possible bug in ->objectclasses()

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

Please try the attached patch.

This changes the name2oid method to return all oids for a given name.
Also some methods will now return undef if the name passed maps to
more than one oid.

Graham.

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 08:22:01AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 08:35:09PM -0400, Steve Neruda wrote:
> > I am writing some scripts to make sure that several Netscape Director
> > Servers are configured the same.  Part of the process is to make sure
> > that they have the same objectclasses, attributres, matching rules, and
> > syntaxes.  While writing the object class part I may have encountered a
> > bug.  There is both an attribute and object class named "locality" in
> > the netscape directory server:
> > 
> > 
> > neruda@farmer:config> sudo grep -i locality slapd.*.conf
> > slapd.at.conf:attribute l   locality              
> > localityname             2.5.4.7                    cis     
> > slapd.oc.conf:objectclass locality
> > 
> > Now if I run this test script below I would expect to see only object
> > classes printed out put instead 'locality' shows up as an attribute:
> 
> > Am I doing something wrong here?
> 
> No you are not.
> 
> I have just looked at the code and it does make the assumption that
> no two items will have the same name. The API for name2oid will
> need to be changed so that when requestion something you either
> pass the type you are looking for or get a list of all of them.
> 
> Graham.
> > 
> >