Re: syntax not understood by LDAP

Mark Smith <mcs@umich.edu> Wed, 19 October 1994 23:03 UTC

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From: Mark Smith <mcs@umich.edu>
To: Annick Consael <consael@fokus.berlin.gmd.d400.de>
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Subject: Re: syntax not understood by LDAP
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Date: Wed, 19 Oct 1994 17:30:01 -0400

>From:     Annick Consael <consael@fokus.berlin.gmd.d400.de>
>  To:     osi-ds@cs.ucl.ac.uk
> 
> We have locally defined a new attribute "comment" of the syntax 
> "caseIgnoreList" and have noticed that is does not come correctly into the
> Directory using LDAP (3.0).
> We have written an LDAP-Client which creates an entry with this attribute.
> The supplied value "something $ something else" is put in the Direcctory as:
>    "{T.61}something \20 something else" and with DISH it comes as:
> 
>     comment - something $ something else
> 
> Has someone an idea why this happens? Are there any bugs known?


I assume you are using the University of Michigan LDAP implementation
(which has also been incorporated into the ISODE Consortium releases)?
This does indeed look like a bug -- the code in ldapd/syntax.c needs a
special case added for the caseIgnoreList syntax.  In the latest LDAP
code (not yet released) we handled it by adding code to find the syntax
for an attribute we use here called "multilineDescription" (which also
has caseIgnoreList syntax).  The correct fix is probably something more
like the patch I have attached; I haven't tried to run the code, so let
me know if it fixes the problem.  If so, I will incorporate it into the
next LDAP release.

-Mark

*** syntax.c-	Fri Oct 29 10:07:31 1993
--- syntax.c	Wed Oct 19 17:23:20 1994
***************
*** 31,36 ****
--- 31,37 ----
  short	ldap_mtai_syntax;
  short	ldap_rts_cred_syntax;
  short	ldap_rtl_syntax;
+ short	ldap_caseignorelist_syntax;
  
  AttributeValue	ldap_str2AttrV();
  static		de_t61();
***************
*** 68,73 ****
--- 69,75 ----
  	ldap_mtai_syntax = get_one_syntax( "mTAInfo", 0 );
  	ldap_rts_cred_syntax= get_one_syntax( "initiatingRTSCredentials", 0 );
  	ldap_rtl_syntax= get_one_syntax( "routingTreeList", 0 );
+ 	ldap_caseignorelist_syntax = str2syntax( "caseIgnoreListSyntax" );
  }
  
  #define SEPARATOR(c)	(c == ',' || c == ';')
***************
*** 802,808 ****
  
  	if ( type->oa_syntax == ldap_rts_cred_syntax ||
  	    type->oa_syntax == ldap_mtai_syntax ||
! 	    type->oa_syntax == ldap_rtl_syntax ) {
  		res = str;
  	} else {
  		res = (char *) malloc( max( 2 * strlen( str ), 10 ) );
--- 804,811 ----
  
  	if ( type->oa_syntax == ldap_rts_cred_syntax ||
  	    type->oa_syntax == ldap_mtai_syntax ||
! 	    type->oa_syntax == ldap_rtl_syntax ||
! 	    type->oa_syntax == ldap_caseignorelist_syntax ) {
  		res = str;
  	} else {
  		res = (char *) malloc( max( 2 * strlen( str ), 10 ) );

syntax not understood by LDAP Annick Consael
Re: syntax not understood by LDAP Mark Smith