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Norbert Reilly commented on DIRSERVER-604:
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This note in the RFC and your associated assumption takes care of my immediate
usecase (I'm concerned with a string - and I'm happy to accept that the
referenced file must already be UTF-8 encoded).
Longer term I think there is still the question of whether the URL contains
binary versus UTF-8 encoded string content. In particular I'm thinking about
things like external biometrics (retinal scan etc) which may be imported into
the directory from files initially.
In this case the code handling the ":<" would need either:
a) Access to the schema to know an attribute was binary, if indeed it is
possible to deduce this from the schema (excuse my ignorance). The code does
not currently have this context available to it.
b) Some extra syntax similar to my earlier addition to denote whether
binary or string data is to be read (assuming a UTF-8 encode string is the
default, then the binary case might look like):
# attribute is stored as byte[]
fileurl:< binary, file:///D:/retinal_scan/joe_blogs.dat
> Support for ":<" LDIF syntax in ApacheDS
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> Key: DIRSERVER-604
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-604
> Project: Directory ApacheDS
> Type: New Feature
> Components: ldap
> Environment: N/A
> Reporter: Norbert Reilly
> Assignee: Emmanuel Lecharny
> Attachments: rfc2849 _inclusion_support.patch, rfc2849
> _inclusion_support.patch, test_inclusion.ldif, test_ldif_inclusion.txt
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> I have need to import potentially long files via LDAP and noted that
> rfc2849 mentioned the ":<" operator allowing an attribute's value to
> be provided by "including" the contents of a URL.
> I have added the support for ":<" by enhancing
> org.apache.directory.shared.ldap.ldif.LdifParserImpl in
> trunks/shared/ldap .
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