Re: In process access to directory.

[Trustin Lee <tr...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I apologize for my late response first of all.

2005/9/23, Jacob S. Barrett <ja...@attachmate.com>:
>
> Trustin Lee wrote:
> > 2005/9/21, Jacob Barrett <JacobBa@attachmatewrq.com
> > <ma...@attachmatewrq.com>>:
> >
> > The source behind this (AbstractContextFactory) though expects one of
> > the Configuration objects in the env, and from what I can tell there
> > isn't one that just locates a directory by it's instance id.
> >
> >
> > You can simply use StartupConfiguration because ApacheDS will ignore the
> > request if the service is already started up. It will also return a
> > JNDI context with an appropriate running user as you specified in your
> > StartupConfiguration.
>
> Yeah, but since I want others that are not familiar to the ApacheDS to
> be able to access the context that I have already setup for them in
> process I was hoping for something a little more simple.
>
> I have started making a few alterations. I added an env value
> "org.apache.ldap.server.jndi.service.instance" to specify the env you
> want. If that value is not set and there is no cfg set then it will try
> to load the "default" instance. This is a short term fix in my mind
> though. When I get a bit more time I would like to use the provider URL
> for this since that is more appropriate. Something along the lines of
> <instance>/<basedn> or <instance>:<basedn>. Since technically a URL
> must have a scheme followed by a colon the second option fits that
> format, it is just odd to have arbitrarily named schemes. Regardless of
> format the AbstractContextFactory would strip out the instance from the
> URL and and pass the remainder of the URL up to the context like it does
> now.


Your idea on letting users provide instanceId in an url is great. I've filed
this issue to JIRA:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIREVE-270

Thanks,
Trustin
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