Re: Schema.pm problem

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

Can you supply a sample schema.

Graham.

On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 10:28:23AM -0600, Clif Harden wrote:
> 
> 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 
> 
>