Re: somewhat off topic

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

Justin <da...@io...> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This posting is probably off topic, but what I'm looking for is a good 
> place to ask such a question, so I thought maybe one of the bright perl
> god(esse)s here could point me in the proper direction of asking.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
>> I am trying to figure out a way to link LDAP entries together in such a
>> way that it will be easy to read one object and then follow the links to
>> read the connected objects as well.  The "linkee" may be linked to by
>> more than one "linker"
>> 
>> Currently it seems that the best way to do this is to add an
>> attributetype of syntax DN to the schema for the objectclasses I'm
>> planning to work with.

Yes, that's the only standard way.

>> I was wondering if anyone else had some ideas about other possible ways
>> of tackling this problem.  What would be really nice is if there were a
>> way to read the 'head' object and all linked objects in a single
>> operation!
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>>  Justin Cooper

No, that's not currently possible.

The current drafts of X.500 support heirarchical relationships between
entries independant of the DIT structure, and it is possible to request
that a read operation returns the entire family.

You may want to investigate that option; there are internet drafts around
which describe the mapping of these features into LDAP.

Cheers,

Chris