Re: [ldapext] Content Synchronization Operation + Transactions

Petr Spacek <pspacek@redhat.com> Mon, 29 June 2015 12:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ldapext] Content Synchronization Operation + Transactions
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On 3.6.2015 09:35, Petr Spacek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> it seems to me that LDAP Transactions (RFC 5805) are not perfectly integrated
> into Content Synchronization Operation (RFC 4533).
> 
> Mainly the client has no idea what changes were part of single transaction. As
> a result, client cannot replicate transactions reliably, especially when
> connection drops in the middle of persist phase of Content Synchronization
> Operation.
> 
> Also some clients could use the information where LDAP transaction
> started/ended for application-level transactions (if the application uses the
> data in real-time) or possibly some optimizations (if some application-level
> work needs to be done after each group of updates).
> 
> I'm going to sketch -00 draft which will attempt to address this, probably by
> adding new messages to indicate where transaction started and ended.
> Naturally, this makes sense only for persist phase.

The 00 version of the draft is now available. I would really appreciate any
feedback!

Particularly, I'm not very sure that "transaction identifier" in "End
Transaction Notification Message" is the best idea.


The latest working version of the document is also available from Github:
https://github.com/pspacek/ietf-ldap-syncrepl-transactions

Pull requests are also more than welcome :-)

Petr^2 Spacek

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A new version of I-D, draft-spacek-ldapext-syncrepl-transaction-00.txt
has been successfully submitted by Petr Spacek and posted to the
IETF repository.

Name:		draft-spacek-ldapext-syncrepl-transaction
Revision:	00
Title:		The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Content
Synchronization Operation with Transactions
Document date:	2015-06-29
Group:		Individual Submission
Pages:		5
URL:
https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-spacek-ldapext-syncrepl-transaction-00.txt
Status:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-spacek-ldapext-syncrepl-transaction/
Htmlized:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-spacek-ldapext-syncrepl-transaction-00


Abstract:
   This document specifies LDAP Control which extends the persist stage
   of the Content Synchronization Operation with information about LDAP
   transaction boundaries.  This information can be used to support
   application-level transactions or for application-level
   optimizations.