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

[Brian LaMere]

>
>
> > 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.
>

well, I was simply running the schema-reload.pl script; the script ran fine,
it was internal dynamic reload task on the directory server that had a
problem, per the error log for the slapd instance:

[31/Aug/2010:15:30:23 -0700] schemareload - Schema reload task starts
(schema dir: default) ...
[31/Aug/2010:15:30:23 -0700] dse - The entry cn=schema in file
/etc/dirsrv/slapd-redacted/schema/97hosting.ldif is invalid, error code 21
(Invalid syntax) - attribute type nocastr128: Missing parent attribute
syntax OID
[31/Aug/2010:15:30:23 -0700] schema_reload - schema file validation failed
[31/Aug/2010:15:30:23 -0700] schemareload - Schema validation failed.



> > 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?
>
>
Yeah, I messed with it a bit not knowing what it was talking about; at first
I tried to figure out why it was loading my 97hosting.ldif file earlier than
the 00core.ldif file that had the syntax that was "missing," since that
seemed to be what the error was saying.

As a simple example though, if I try to create an attribute with "SUP top"
it fails; I can do that with an objectclass with no problems, but not with
an attributetype.  Here's an extremely over-simplified example:

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
me at redacted:/etc/dirsrv/slapd-redacted/schema# cat 96testing.ldif
#
################################################################################
#
dn: cn=schema
#
################################################################################
#
attributeTypes: (
  2.25.184169507047331805154432216124173436187.1.2.3.99999
  NAME 'testAttributeWithSup'
  DESC 'rfc2252 allows for both superior objectclasses and superior
attributetypes'
  SUP top
  )
#
################################################################################
#
me at redacted:/etc/dirsrv/slapd-redacted/schema#
/usr/lib64/dirsrv/slapd-redacted/schema-reload.pl -v -D "cn=Directory
Manager" -j ../dirman.pwd
ldapmodify: started Tue Aug 31 20:12:04 2010

ldap_init( redacted.here.com, 389 )
add objectclass:
top
extensibleObject
add cn:
schema_reload_2010_8_31_20_12_4
adding new entry cn=schema_reload_2010_8_31_20_12_4, cn=schema reload task,
cn=tasks, cn=config
modify complete

me at redacted:/etc/dirsrv/slapd-redacted/schema# tail -4
/var/log/dirsrv/slapd-redacted/errors
[31/Aug/2010:20:12:03 -0700] schemareload - Schema reload task starts
(schema dir: default) ...
[31/Aug/2010:20:12:03 -0700] dse - The entry cn=schema in file
/etc/dirsrv/slapd-redacted/schema/96testing.ldif is invalid, error code 21
(Invalid syntax) - attribute type testAttributeWithSup: Missing parent
attribute syntax OID
[31/Aug/2010:20:12:03 -0700] schema_reload - schema file validation failed
[31/Aug/2010:20:12:04 -0700] schemareload - Schema validation failed.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Doing the same with an objectclass ("SUP top") works fine, obviously.  All
this means is I can't define attributes that are inheritance types; no
matter how many times I may repeat the same three lines in many entries,
they have to be repeated; I can't just say "SUP nocastr128" instead.

Again, doesn't stop anything from working, I just did a global
search/replace in vi and was done quickly.  It just looks messier, and was
curious why it wasn't allowed to have superior attributes, or if there was
something I was doing wrong?

Brian LaMere
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