[389-users] superior attributes (not object classes)

[Rich Megginson]

Brian LaMere wrote:
> Regarding superior attributes, I found this email from 4 years ago:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-directory-users/2006-July/msg00059.html
>
> In it, "Mike" said "Seems that my schema conversion tool doesn't 
> support attribute inheritance...[snip]...I will keep this in mind for 
> a feature enhancement."
>
> rfc2252 defines superior attributes, and it was something I was using 
> in my schema definition since I have a lot of new attributes and all 
> but 4 of them had one of 5 different configs of "EQUALITY|ORDERING" 
> and "SYNTAX".  Not only was it cleaner to be able to just inherit the 
> syntax and matching rules, it also was faster ;)  Obviously, it 
> doesn't keep me from doing anything.
>
> Was this ever looked at again for a feature enhancement?  Is it 
> already available, if I do X thing?
A feature enhancement to the schema conversion tool?  I'm not sure who 
maintains that now.
>
> During the schema reload, I got this error (for context):
>
> dse - The entry cn=schema in file 
> /etc/dirsrv/slapd-(server)/schema/97hosting.ldif is invalid, error 
> code 21 (Invalid syntax) - attribute type nocastr128: Missing parent 
> attribute syntax OID
>
> I got it because I was using "SUP nocastr128" in an attributeType, 
> after defining an attributeType of nocastr128 with the base components 
> I wanted to inherit.
So the problem is that SYNTAX is not inherited from the parent?
What version of 389-ds-base are you using?
Can you post the definitions of the parent and child attributes?

>
> Thanks,
> Brian LaMere
>
> ps - I have 2 more emails I'm sending; since they are on different 
> subjects, I thought I'd break them into different emails.  Please let 
> me know if this was a bad idea and I won't do it again.
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