Re: random topics

This also brings me to another topic - adopting features from OpenDS... They expose a cn=Tasks tree which can be used for submitting tasks via LDAP. Currently we expose our runqueue under cn=Monitor but that's only read-only. It would be nice to be able to submit/schedule/trigger tasks on the fly... In particular, it would be nice to have a defined task for triggering a syncrepl refresh.

The Android slapd config would be a refreshOnly syncrepl consumer. It would also have a hidden back-ldap refreshOnly consumer replicating from its local database and writing to the remote master. This way both push and pull would be under control of the Android device. (You have no idea how much of a bill you can rack up with fully automatic background synching. It's much better to have this under complete user control.) The GUI would just submit a request to cn=Tasks to trigger a synch. OpenDS also has matching rules defined for comparing timestamp attributes to "current server time". This is extremely handy for a lot of things. Again, this is a small, self-contained project that should be simple for someone to jump in on. More ideas later...