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Re: [scim] Filter ABNF Clarifications

Phillip Hunt <phil.hunt@independentid.com> Thu, 13 August 2020 16:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [scim] Filter ABNF Clarifications
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Shelly

The “not” is itself optional to allow bracketing of sub filter expressions. 

(Filter) or not(filter)

Phil

> On Aug 13, 2020, at 8:56 AM, Shelley <randomshelley@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> While reviewing the SCIM 2.0 filter ABNF syntax [1], I found what appears to be a couple of issues that I wanted to confirm before submitting errata.
> 
> Regarding the "not" filters:
>      FILTER    = attrExp / logExp / valuePath / *1"not" "(" FILTER ")"
> 
>      valFilter = attrExp / logExp / *1"not" "(" valFilter ")"
> Specifically, if I'm not mistaken:
> there should be a space between "not" and "("
> alternatively, the following example [2] should not include a space:
> not (emails co "example.com" or emails.value co "example.org")
> the use of "*1" is not correct
> this effectively makes the entire rule optional
> As such, I think the above filters should be re-written as:
> 
>      FILTER    = attrExp / logExp / valuePath / "not" [SP] "(" FILTER ")"
> 
>      valFilter = attrExp / logExp / "not" [SP] "(" valFilter ")"
> 
> In case any SCIM clients/providers are relying on the existing ABNF which does not define the space, the above syntax makes the space optional.
> 
> Please confirm whether I've misinterpreted anything, otherwise, I will likely report this as errata.
> 
> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7644#page-21
> [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7644#page-23
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