Schema.pm problem

[Clif H. <cl...@di...>]

This is to let everyone know that there is a problem in
the Schema.pm module that can cause attribute and objectclass
information to not be returned when requested.  This in turn
can make it appear that the attribute or objectclass does not 
exist.  I believe someone reported this problem to the list
several weeks ago.

I know what causes the problem but I do not have a solution to
it.  The problem is the way Schema.pm changes the case of textual
information.  The biggest problem that I currently know of is 
with textual oids.

Example oid: netscapeMessagingServer-oid  

When you use the items method with this oid,  the method items calls
the method name2oid.  The name2oid method does a perl lc command on
the OID and because of this it does not find the items information.

The items information is stored in the schema object under the
netscapeMessagingServer-oid key.  I have confirmed this using
the Data::Dumper module.

Numerical and all lower case textual OIDs do not have this problem.

Regards,

Clif Harden