Adam Carroll wrote:
> Thanks for the pointers. After digging in a little deeper, a couple of
> other questions came up.
>
> It seems like the post-op plugin has a parm block populated for it
> that has enough information in it to know which entry is being touched
> (my plugin is an add post-op, so for me it tells my plugin which entry
> was added).
>
> I actually need my post-op plugin to operate on both the entry being
> added, and another different entry. For example, the entry being added
> may look like uid=someuser,ou=principals,ou=trading,o=some.com. I do
> need to change an attribute about this entry, and I've got my plugin
> to successfully do this. However, I also need the plugin to operate on
> the second entry, which would look like
> uid=idnbr,ou=trading,o=some.com.
>
> For the second entry, I need to fetch an attribute value for the
> entry, increment it by 1, and save it back.
>
> Is all of this possible with the LDAP API suite? I've gone through the
> plugin developer's guide and nothing seems to intuitively work in this
> fashion...
>From your post-op plugin, you can do a search to find the entry, then a modify to
>update the entry. The plug-in API will not be fully documented until the release of
>iDS 5.1. You can also do this currently with the DS 4.x
plug-in API and a DS 4.x server.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Adam
>
> Rich Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Adam Carroll wrote:
> >
> > > I need to add some form of an object to my directory server that will act like a
>sequence number. Basically, every time a user is added, the number needs to get
>implemented by 1. So far, the best idea I've come up with
> > > is to have a plugin serve as a post-op plugin and handle the incrementing.
> >
> > That is the usual solution.
> >
> > > I was wondering if anybody else had ever had the need to do this and what
>solutions were used. Also, does Netscape have a native sequence data type?
> >
> > No, there is nothing like an SQL sequence data type.
> >
> > > Any help is appreciated -
> > >
> > > Adam
