Custom schema help

[MartinZaidel]

All-

I need some pointers to doc and/or advice on how to deal with a custom LDAP schema.  My DirectoryServer instance is proxying requests to a custom LDAP server with a custom schema, and then processing the responses and passing them back to the client.  However, the end client wants to submit to my proxy server a search filter that contains a custom attribute in the backend server.  When the client submits this filter to Apache DS, the NormalizationService intercepts it before the request reaches my DirectoryPartition implementation, and----failing to find it in its own schemas---returns an empty enumeration.

Clearly, I need to either a.) load the custom schema or b.) modify the NormalizationSchema not to perform the local attribute check.  I'd prefer the former (since that seems less hack-y), but I have no idea how to go about it or what kind of pain I'm in for.

Any advice appreciated.

Regards,

Martin Zaidel