On 4/3/2024 10:22 AM, Howard Chu wrote:
Jordan Brown wrote:
Is there even a straightforward way in the protocol to get type information? If the protocol won't tell you, a client library can't tell you.
Any client can retrieve the schema definition of any schema element using an LDAP Search request.
I had thought that all of those schema definitions were
server-specific. But I see that RFC 4512 standardizes them.
Thanks.
So that would seem to be the answer to the question: if you want to
know how to handle a particular data item, you need to query its
schema.
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Jordan Brown, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Solaris