[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0238] ipaldap: Override conversion of nsds5replicalastupdatestart

[Jan Cholasta]

On 1.7.2014 16:45, Tomas Babej wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The replication related attributes nsds5replicalastupdatestart and
> nsds5replicalastupdateend have special behaviour implemented in 389,
> as follows:
>
> In case they are explicitly requested for and not set, 0 is returned.
>
> However, 0 is not a valid value for LDAP Generalized time. Thus
> we need to add these attributes to the _SYNTAX_OVERRIDE dictionary,
> overriding their conversion to datetime and converting them to
> string instead, which preserves the old behaviour expected by the
> replication codebase.
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/4350
>
> Note: This makes patch 236 obsolete.
> Note II: This is a short-term fix from my point of view. Ticket to
> resolve the underlying issue has been filed to 389:
>
> https://fedorahosted.org/389/ticket/47836

It should be unicode, not str, if you want old behavior.

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Jan Cholasta