Am Freitag 26 Februar 2010 13:30:55 schrieb masarati@aero.polimi.it:
Hi,
while taking up some loose ends on my work on delete support for back- config (enabled with -DSLAP_CONFIG_DELETE) I wondered how we should deal with the deletion of the syncprov overlay when there are active refreshAndPersist sessions. What errorcode should we sent when closing such a connection? To me LDAP_UNAVAILABLE sound like the best choice. LDAP_UNWILLING_TO_PERFORM might also be ok.
What about an unsolicited notification (RFC 4511, 4.4)?
Hm, yes. A "Notice of Disconneciton" might work as well. But that would result in the client connection been taken down, which is probably not desired. For syncrepl connections from slapd-consumers this might be ok. But other LDAPSync clients might have other operations active on the same connection which wouldn't be affected by the removal of the syncprov overlay, I guess.
Returning an error just for the LDAPSync related Search seemed more logical to me.
In any case, (ab)using an existing error code might not be optimal. as a consequence of removing slapo-syncprov(5), any consumer using it needs to be clearly informed that just retrying later is probably not an option. On the contrary, returning a dedicated error would allow to exactly inform the consumer about what it can expect from the (former) producer, and possibly to suggest a strategy (e.g. the message could contain a hint about some substitute producer, or so).
p.