Re: Schema.pm problem

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

Yes, but it will be awhile before I can send it.
I have some other things I must do first.

Clif



> 
> 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 
> > 
> > 
> 


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