[Freeipa-devel] search fields

[Pete Rowley]

Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Karl MacMillan wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 14:14 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> David O'Brien wrote:
>>>> Pete Rowley wrote:
>>>>> David O'Brien wrote:
>>>>>> Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>> I have a memory of talking about this before but can't find the 
>>>>>>> e-mails.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm working on policy configuration now and setting the default 
>>>>>>> search
>>>>>>> fields. They are:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> users: uid,givenName,sn,telephoneNumber,ou,title
>>>>>>> groups: cn,description
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If you want additional fields speak now :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I seem to recall discussing add carLicense and displayname.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> rob
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     
>>>>>> Is it possible to search the same field for multiple values? e.g. 
>>>>>> I want
>>>>>> to search for Bill and Ben, both of whom exist, but I get "No 
>>>>>> results
>>>>>> found for 'Bill Ben'".
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   
>>>>> This should work - looks like a regression.
>>>>>
>>>> I created ticket #120 for this
>>>>
>>> I looked into this a bit. It seems that we do an AND match for each 
>>> element and not an OR match.
>>>
>>> So we look for Bill AND Ben and not Bill OR Ben. I think this is to 
>>> handle the sample case of "Joe Marketing" to search for Joe in 
>>> Marketing.
>>>
>>> I can easily switch this but is it what we want? Should there be a 
>>> switch for ALL or ANY in the UI?
>>>
>>
>> Ideally the results would be all of the AND results followed by all of
>> the OR results. Is that possible?
>>
>> Karl
>>
>
> A question for a DS guy I think to determine performance impact, if 
> any. I think it would be very mild since all of these attributes are 
> indexed.
>
> Currently a search for "Bill Ben" looks like:
>
> filter="(&(objectClass=person)(&(|(uid=Bill)(givenName=Bill)(sn=Bill)
> (telephoneNumber=Bill)(ou=Bill)(title=Bill))(|(uid=Ben)(givenName=Ben)
> (sn=Ben)(telephoneNumber=Ben)(ou=Ben)(title=Ben))))"
>
> plus
>
> filter="(&(objectClass=person)(&(|(uid=*Bill*)(givenName=*Bill*)
> (sn=*Bill*)(telephoneNumber=*Bill*)(ou=*Bill*)(title=*Bill*))
> (|(uid=*Ben*)(givenName=*Ben*)(sn=*Ben*)(telephoneNumber=*Ben*)
> (ou=*Ben*)(title=*Ben*))))"
>
> So complete matches first, then partial matches.
>
> To do an AND as well where would we put the results? All exact matches 
> first follow by all partials?
>
That's how it used to work.
> rob
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Pete

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