Re: parent DN and deref control

On 09/30/2015 09:19 PM, Michael Ströder wrote:

I have a use-case where it would be handy to use the deref control to request attributes from an entry's parent entry. But this would require kind of a pseudo-attribute 'parentDN' (similar to 'entryDN').

Anybody aware whether such a thing is already available?

I've attached my implementation -- hope it helps. The patch is against REL_ENG_2_4.

(More details: the parentDN part is fairly straightforward, given the entryDN implementation as a model. However, the deref overlay can't use dynamic attributes [you can try the unmodified slapd with deref and entryDN], so I wrote a nasty hack to make it work with parentDN. Not extensively tested, e.g., I'm not sure it would work "" as the parent.)