Hi Alina,
I suppose the use case is that users (of your customer) want to have
such a thing. In Germany there are e.g. Names that sound similar and are
only different in one character, e.g.:
"Mayer" vs "Meyer" where you want to search "M?yer".
This of course can be done via * ("M*yer") only that you would also
get "Mohandas Iyer" .
The LDAP protocol has no such thing as ?, so you would have to implement
it in the client interface, i.e search "M*yer" and then filter the
results within your own application logic (e.g. in a webgateway) for
"M?er" before displaying the reduced result set to the user.
Cheers,
Peter
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Alina Dubrovska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kirjoitti:
That's just a requirement from our customer :)
They want to be able to search users (contained in LDAP directory) using
wildcards:
* - zero or more symbols
? - zero or one symbol
You only listed the requirement, you did not describe the use case nor
any rationale. If you are not doing use case driven design, then you
are driving blindly and nobody can help you get to where you are
trying to go until you open your eyes. Implementing requirements
blindly, especially arcane requirements, without understanding them,
is a sign of an architecture which is destined to fail.
Once again, what is the use case and rationale behind this requirement?
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