Re: Empty DN ("") String Value?

Marc Boorshtein wrote:

I wanted to get an opinion from the other java ldap projects. Should the toString() method of a class that represents a DN return null or an empty string? I would think an empty string but JLDAP returns null. Anyone have an opinion on the matter?

I'm not a Java programmer but in Python one has also to distinguish such cases ("" vs. None).

It really depends on what you want to express. Note that "" represents the rootDSE or root naming context. So "" would reference something existing or well-defined. IMHO NULL (or None in Python) would better signal something undefined or none-existing.

Ciao, Michael.