Schema maipulations in the API

[Emmanuel Lecharny <el...@gmail.com>]

Hi guys,

today, I added a SchemaLoader that loads the schemas directly from a 
server SubschemaSubentry. That supposes the server's rootDse contains a 
subschemaSubentry attribute, of course.

Using it in the API will allow a user to load the schemas his server 
supports, and to use them locally to check what needs to be checked.

There are a few things that need to be worked out though :
- we don't load anything like comparators, or syntaxCheckers (except 
from ApacheDS), simply because they are not exposed.
- we don't have a way to list the HR attributes in the API. This can be 
a problem as we suppose that every attribute's value is a String when we 
read them from a server.

The second issue is a real problem. JNDI has a list of binary 
attributes, and this list can be extended. We need to add the very same 
feature in the API. For instance, if you load a JPegPhoto from a server, 
it will be read as a String, and as it's a binary file, when converting 
its content to Unicode from UTF-8, the data will be modified.

There is a JIRA for this one 
(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRAPI-78), I'll try to fix it 
tonite.

More to come...

-- 
Regards,
Cordialement,
Emmanuel Lécharny
www.iktek.com