Re: Reguested Schema data

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

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:53:42PM -0000, Chris Ridd wrote:
> > 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?)

This is inline whith what I have been thinking. Not doing the lc() is not the solution.

Internally we need to split %oid into several say $oid{at}{$oid}

That would also allow us to get all attributes easily, which we currently do
differently.

We then need to look at the API. Currently we do $schema->item($what), I think
the API needs a way to specifiy, get data from this attribute etc. as well as
the general get me this.

I have a few ideas in my head. I will see if I can put something together.

Graham.