Re: Novell Schema problem?

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

Care to send a doc patch too ?

Thanks,
Graham.

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 12:41:02PM +0200, Norbert Klasen wrote:
> Hi Graham,
> 
> --On Donnerstag, 4. April 2002 07:14 +0100 Graham Barr <gb...@po...> 
> wrote:
> 
> > The schema module is one that will be changing in the next release. IIRC
> > this is a bug with parsing - in names. Attached is my developemnt version
> > of Schema.pm and Schema.pod, the API is different.
> >
> > It would be useful if others could also test this. I will be doing a
> > beta release of perl-ldap as soon as my day job permits, which will
> > also have changes to the DSML to be a SAX parser.
> 
> I've worked with the 0.99 version of Schema.pm you posted earlier and added 
> some functions I needed:
> - _get() now can take the name of an schema element or a hash ref to a 
> schema element.
> - functions which return arrays now can also return a ref to the hash that 
> was used to construct the array. This makes comparisons very easy, e.g:
> 	$allowed_attributes = $schema->may( "myPerson" );
> 	if ( $allowed_attributes{ $schema->at("myAttribute") ) { ...
> - new function: remove() which removes an element and all its aliases from 
> %schema
> - new function: superclasschain() which returns all object classes in the 
> superclass chain of the specified object class(es)
> - new function: is_instance_of() which tests whether an entry (or a list of 
> object classes) is an instance of the specified object class(es)
> - new function: must_or_may() which returns the interserction of must() and 
> may()
> - FIXME: all_*() includes duplicates because of aliases
> 
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