[Fedora-directory-users] how to search using attributes of the parent nodes

[Sergey Ivanov]

Sergey Ivanov wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for a way to create a search filter, which can filter by
> specifying attributes not only at the destination object, but also it's
> parent's in directory tree.
> Namely, I have mail aliases for virtual domains stored in ldap tree.
> I have ou=mailAliases, and under it ou=<first.domain>,
> ou=<second.domain> and so on.
> Each of domains have entries cn=<aliasName> of class mailGroup, with
> attributes of mgrpRFC822MailMember having expansion for these aliases.
> The things became complicating because each of domain has different
> representations. I can store them in ou attributes of domain's entry.
> Can I search with filter requesting entry with cn=<local part of e-mail>
>  which belong to parent, having ou=<domain part of email> in it's
> attributes?
> 
> Till now I understand that I can't and the only way to do it is to
> create a copies of these subtrees with DNs for each representation of
> domain name.
May be, aliasObject, or reference can help avoiding duplication of
subtrees? If so, how to use them with Fedora DS?
-- 
	Sergey Ivanov