Configure a partition without a context entry (was: [ApacheDS] [XBeans] [Spring] Any issue with moving to spring 2.5?)

[Stefan Zoerner <st...@labeo.de>]

Hi Alex!

Alex Karasulu wrote:
> Stefan Zoerner, your wish is my command:
> 
>    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-1237
> 
> also ...
> 
>    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=689396 
> <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=689396>
> 
> Take a look at the stock server.xml and let me know what you think.

Thanks for implementing this that fast. I have tried it out, and it 
works. The problem now is that it is harder to get a new partition up 
and running for a user. But this is my fault :-)

Anyway, I was able to do this by importing of a little LDIF which looked 
like this:

dn: dc=example,dc=com
dc: example
objectClass: top
objectClass: domain
description: The context entry

It worked both with a "standard" command line tool and Directory Studio. 
But I would prefer to add a special command in Studio. "New entry..." 
does not work, if the suffix is built with more than one DN, like 
"dc=example,dc=com". And importing would mean that a user has to create 
a file.

My favorite is to add a menu item in Studio which is called "New context 
entry ...". It should be only available on the "DIT" entry within the 
tree. Perhaps PAM or StefanS can help me to refine the requirement here ...

But in general I think the new approach looks much clearer to me. I have 
not understood what will happen to a partition definition within 
server.xml, if I modify the LDIF after the first start. Will the entry 
be modified after restart? I guess not ...

This confusion can't occur with the new approach.

More comments and suggestion on the file later. I would like to document 
  my new insights first ;-)

Greetings from Hamburg,
      Stefan

Re: Configure a partition without a context entry

[Stefan Zoerner <st...@labeo.de>]

Hi Stefan!

Stefan Seelmann wrote:

> Isn't is possible to bundle an LDIF with the server and load that LDIF
> on startup automatically?

Of course, if you do that for the "dc=example,dc=com"-partition which is 
pre-configured in the server.xml. But problems occur if a user wants to 
define his/her own partition besides that. This is the more interesting 
part ...

Greetings to Munich,
     Stefan

Re: Configure a partition without a context entry

[Stefan Seelmann <se...@apache.org>]

Stefan Zoerner wrote:
> Hi Alex!
> 
> Alex Karasulu wrote:
>> Stefan Zoerner, your wish is my command:
>>
>>    https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-1237
>>
>> also ...
>>
>>    http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=689396
>> <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=689396>
>>
>> Take a look at the stock server.xml and let me know what you think.
> 
> Thanks for implementing this that fast. I have tried it out, and it
> works. The problem now is that it is harder to get a new partition up
> and running for a user. But this is my fault :-)

Isn't is possible to bundle an LDIF with the server and load that LDIF
on startup automatically?


> It worked both with a "standard" command line tool and Directory Studio.
> But I would prefer to add a special command in Studio. "New entry..."
> does not work, if the suffix is built with more than one DN, like
> "dc=example,dc=com". And importing would mean that a user has to create
> a file.
> 
> My favorite is to add a menu item in Studio which is called "New context
> entry ...". It should be only available on the "DIT" entry within the
> tree. Perhaps PAM or StefanS can help me to refine the requirement here ...

I remember that a user also need the ability to specify an complete DN
in the New Entry Wizard. But I don't find the mail nor a Jira about it.

Kind Regards,
Stefan