Re: UUID external format

Emmanuel Lecharny wrote:

Hi guys,

a short question about the way OpenLDAP (last version) exposes the entryUUID during replication. UUID is supposed to be binary :

RFC 4530 :

*2.1 UUID Syntax*

 A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) [RFC4122
 <http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.html>] is a 16-octet (128-
 bit) value that identifies an object. The ASN.1 [X.680] type UUID is
 defined to represent UUIDs as follows:

        UUID ::= OCTET STRING (SIZE(16))
              -- constrained to an UUID [RFC4122<http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.html>]

When the UUID is transfered in the Syncrepl cookies, it's as a String, not as a byte[] (with a format like xxx-yyyy-zzzz, kindof). Is there any reason not to transfer the UUID as a byte[] ?

Could be an oversight. RFC4533 and the syncprov implementation were not always in sync with each other. (ironic...)