[jira] Closed: (DIRSNICKERS-43) Write a ReferralRule

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   Resolver: Alex Karasulu
       Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:20 PM

Was written a while back.

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Here is an overview of the issue:
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        Key: DIRSNICKERS-43
    Summary: Write a ReferralRule
       Type: Task

     Status: Closed
   Priority: Major
 Resolution: FIXED

    Project: Directory Snickers
 Components: 
             LDAP Provider

   Assignee: Alex Karasulu
   Reporter: Alex Karasulu

    Created: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 2:15 PM
    Updated: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:20 PM

Description:
Need to write a rule that builds a Referral object that is to be part of a LdapResult.  The rule simply creates an empty ReferralImpl object and pushes it onto the stack.  Another OCTET STRING rule extending rule keeps generating ByteBuffers for the LDAPURLs and adding them to the Referral object on the top of the object stack.

If we extend the PrimitiveOctetStringRule and override the finish() method of the rule but call the super method at the top then we can just pop the objectStack for the ByteBuffer since the super call pushes the ByteBuffer of the OCTET STRING onto the objectStack.

So we need two rules to do this right:

1. ReferralUrlRule extends PrimitiveOctetStringRule
2. ReferralRule extends AbstractRule 

We could use reflection and have a special form of PrimitiveOctetStringRule that calls a method to add the content it generates but this would slow things down.  Plus I'd probably use BeanUtils and that would mean an extra dependency. As a general rule we want to stay far away from reflection in this very low level decoder.



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