Re: [Engine-devel] namingcontexts getting ignored.

29 Apr 2012


      ----- Original Message -----
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From: "Yair Zaslavsky" <yzaslavs@redhat.com>
To: engine-devel@ovirt.org
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2012 11:02:00 AM
Subject: Re: [Engine-devel] namingcontexts getting ignored.
On 04/29/2012 09:49 AM, Oved Ourfalli wrote:
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Hey,
In case the namingContexts field contains more than one naming
context, we have no way of knowing which one is the required one.
We take the first one. In active directory, for example (and as far
as I understand in the newest free-ipa) you have a
defaultNamingContext field, and if so we take it, and it contains
only one naming context.
As you see in the code below, we have a "special" treatment for
RHDS, as it always contains "o=netscaperoot" in the namingContexts
field (not necessary at the beginning of the list), so we filter
it out.
It was enough for now, but I agree that if adding new LDAP
providers, which usually have a more complex and unpredictable
data in the namingContext field, then we would probably need to
ask the user to specify the naming context for us, and if he
didn't specify it then assume it is identical to the domain name.
Oved
Another idea -
Now that we provide the provider type in manage domains, maybe we
should
add a logic for getting naming contexts based on the provider type.
Thoughts on this?
That's pretty much what we do (although it is all in one method, so it should be extracted to an interface). But, it is assuming one can predict what will be in this field.
In IPA we now have the defaultNamingContext, so we can use it (like we do in AD). In RHDS we know what it contains, so we can deduce the naming context. Not sure about IBM- directory services. So, we might need to provide a configuration entry for that as well (same as we do with the provider type).
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From: "Sharad Mishra" <snmishra@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: engine-devel@ovirt.org
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 2:51:25 AM
Subject: [Engine-devel] namingcontexts getting ignored.
Hi,
I enter "getDefaultNamingContextFromNamingContexts()" with
namingContexts set to -
namingcontexts: CN=SCHEMA, CN=LOCALHOST, CN=IBMPOLICIES,
O=IBM.COM,
O=DELETED.IBM.COM
But this method only takes the first case "CN=SCHEMA" and
    ignores
the rest. Actually I am interested in "O=IBM.COM".
    Is this working as designed or needs improvement?
-Sharad Mishra
IBM
public class RootDSEData {
     private String domainDN = null;
     private LdapProviderType ldapProviderType = null;
     private final static String RHDS_NAMING_CONTEXT =
     "o=netscaperoot";
public static String
getDefaultNamingContextFromNamingContexts(Attribute
namingContexts) {
         for (int index = 0; index < namingContexts.size();
         ++index)
         {
             String namingContext;
             try {
                 namingContext = (String)
                 namingContexts.get(index);
             } catch (NamingException e) {
                 return null;
             }
             if
             (!RHDS_NAMING_CONTEXT.equalsIgnoreCase(namingContext))
             {
                 return namingContext;
             }
         }
         return null;
     }
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