[jira] Updated: (DIRSERVER-906) Using the textual "entryACI" inside the server is dangerous and will lead to errors

["Emmanuel Lecharny (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Emmanuel Lecharny updated DIRSERVER-906:
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        Fix Version/s: 1.5.1
    Affects Version/s: 1.5.0
                       1.0.1

> Using the textual "entryACI" inside the server is dangerous and will lead to errors
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>                 Key: DIRSERVER-906
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-906
>             Project: Directory ApacheDS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.1, 1.5.0
>            Reporter: Emmanuel Lecharny
>             Fix For: 1.5.1
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> There are places in the server where we do some existance check against attributes such as "entryACI", "prescriptiveACI".
> This is not good enough. If a client send en antry using "2.5.24.5" instead of "entryACI", the test will fail.
> There are two way to fix it, it it will be costly :
> 1) during the normalization phase, *always* transform the attributeTypes to their OID counterpart so that comparizon is done with the OID
> 2) when looking for an attributeType, search for the OID in an Attributes, and nothing else.
> Alternative would be to use the AttributeUtils.getAttribute(  Attributes, AttributeType ) method which return the attribute which type equals the one given as a parameter. There are 2 problems with this approach :
> 1) this method is buggy : if there is only one alias, then it is used, so you won't be able to find an Attribute using its OID ;)
> 2) it is slow, as you may have to find the AttributeType associated with an OID or a String first, and then you may loop through all the aliases.

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