Dear all,
I am a "long time user" of OpenLDAP core parts.
If
the core is very stable, I often received some request from application
developers, complaining about the lack of REST Web Service API to
manipulate their Directory objects.
Of course, as far as I could see, there is commercial solution available to do this, or even a project using Spring.
But I could not see a simple proposal based on a simple Apache Server and "fully free" of rights.
I also saw (https://www.openldap.org/devel/contributing.html)
that "The OpenLDAP Project welcomes contributions of
independently-developed stand-alone LDAP-related software packages
suitable for distribution separately from existing packages (e.g.,
OpenLDAP Software, JLDAP, JDBC-LDAP)".
Then, I would like to
propose a full Open Source first realease of a CRUD REST Web Service to
manipulate OpenLDAP's Directory Objects.
I know that this
first release is very limited in term of features, but I think it does
the "core job", and may be a common base to be enriched to build a real
OpenLDAP REST API ?
Thanks for your time reading this proposal, do not hesitate to ask if you have any question.
Kind regards,
Olivier Chator