Re: Reguested Schema data

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

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 09:50:04PM -0600, Clif Harden wrote:
>> Graham,  
>> 
>> I have attached 2 files that contain data about the schema 
>> problem.  
>> 
>> ldap.oids.gz contains oids that do not return data.  
>> 
>> ldap.schema.gz is a complete schema from one of my test 
>> netscape directory servers.  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> If possible, possibly now or in the future, I would like to 
>> see us do away with changing the case of the oids and names. 
>> I have not had a chance to see how hard this would be.  
> 
> You cannot. Attribute names etc are not case sensetive. So the module
> must ignore case when doing a lookup for the name supplied.
> 
> Graham.

Correct, however Clif also adds:

>> away with creating multi-valued oid strings.  On one of my servers I
>> have an objectclass named mhsMessagingStore and an attribute aliased as
>> MHSMessagingStore, when we lower case the names and aliases in this case
>> we create the same name pointing to 2 different
>> oids.

This means that we need multiple oid 'namespaces', as Clif has two OIDs -
one an objectclass and one an attribute - with the same name.

We currently have a single %oid object per Schema object, so we could do
something like prefix each oid string with "at" or "oc". I'm not sure if
that's the best solution, or if this would cause other problems. (For
example, what would you do with values for an attribute that has an OID
syntax - would the values be 'at' or 'oc' OIDs?)

Cheers,

Chris