[389-devel] Re: Please review: OpenLDAP support

[Rich Megginson]

Howard Chu wrote:
>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:20:22 -0600
>> From: Rich Megginson<rmeggins at redhat.com>
>
>> Note - the patch does not contain the diffs for configure nor 
>> Makefile.in
>> http://rmeggins.fedorapeople.org/0001-OpenLDAP-support.patch
>
> We probably should talk about exposing the UTF8 APIs. The only reason 
> they were kept private is because they weren't part of the RFC1823 or 
> the expired C API draft, but they've been present for at least the 
> past 9 years.
Yeah, the utf8 API is in kind of a weird place.  Some stuff is provided 
by the OS, like utf8 <-> charset conversion (iconv), some stuff is 
provided by third party libraries we already use (ICU).  It's really odd 
that an LDAP library should provide a utf8 API - it just seems as though 
there should be a more widespread utf8 API library (ICU is very 
heavyweight if that's all you're going to use it for -  a sledgehammer 
for a thumbtack).  However, since utf8 is so integral to LDAP, having 
LDAP expose a useful API would be a good thing.
>
> re: ldif_read_record() and the public LDIF API, note our ITS#5892; 
> some of the function signatures here will change soon so that error 
> can be distinguished from EOF. (But since 2.4's APIs are supposed to 
> be frozen it may wait until 2.5.)
Ok.  We will have to track that and be prepared when the change occurs.  
Thanks for the heads-up.
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