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I have been advised to resend it......
The following is a fragment from a question and reply which
was originally posted to the mailnews mailing list but this
is a more appropriate forum to follow up. I am a colleague of
Paul Sandoz here in Dublin who posted the original mail about
2 weeks ago which stated that we are looking at adding LDAP
access to Mozilla.
Dan Mosedale reply stated that work was already
onging on LDAP RDF via <Peter van der Beken> and that it
would be going back into the tree soon.
I am interested in this. I am not specifically interested in
the LDAP RDF datasource code but on the added LDAP code in general.
I am enquiring into how this was implemented, what the idl looked
like, is the code a wrapper around the existing LDAP C-sdk etc. Is
this code a follow up to the existing code in the directory/xpcom tree?
When are we likely to see the code in the tree?
This looks like it has similarities to the work we are
currently investigating and we would rather avail of existing
code than attempt to write our own and find out later that it
is already implemented. Can Dan or Peter or anyone
fill me on the details of this. I would appreciate any clarification
on this. Thanks in advance
>>Paul Sandoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> I've been looking at the address book code with
>> respect to how it could be modified to support
>> multiple data sources, for example LDAP servers
>> or GNOME Evolution.
>>
>> Below are some observations. I am new to the
>> Mozilla way so some may be incorrect...
>>
>>
>
> reply from Dan Mosedale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Having it work across multiple data sources would be a fine thing.
> Presumably RDF data sources could be used for this, and
> nsIRDFCompositeDataSource could be used to aggregate them. However,
> for this to work, all the data sources would probably need the same
> schema (or at least some subset of the schemas would have to be common).
> The LDAP RDF datasource that's in the tree is currently just
> scaffolding. Peter van der Beken (thanks Peter!) has done a bunch
> of work to flesh it out and get it basically working, and I hope to
> get this in the tree very soon. Then you'll be able to check out the
> existing schema.
