Cannot add a value to an attribute

• Key: DIRSERVER-243
• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Alex Karasulu
• Reporter: Ugo Cei
• Component/s: ldap
• Affects Version/s: pre-1.0
• Fix Version/s: pre-1.0

Description

When using Novell's JLDAP client library (distributed with OpenLDAP), if you try to modify an entity by adding a value to an attribute that already has one value, the new value overwrites the old one instead of being added. Here's the code I use to add a new member to a group:

            LDAPAttribute member = new LDAPAttribute("uniqueMember", dn);
            LDAPModification mod = new LDAPModification(LDAPModification.ADD, member);
            String groupDN = "cn=students,ou=groups,ouu=system";
            lc.modify(groupDN, mod);

Apparently, specifying LDAPModification.ADD works as if LDAPModification.REPLACE had been specified.

Comments

Although the tools/libraries used are different, I think it is plausible that the cause is the same as in this one
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIREVE-216

[Alex Karasulu]

Committed revision 231186 for duplicate here: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIREVE-216. Plus this issue is totally in the wrong project category. It is a server bug not one in the LDAP commons. However this is very hard to discern so no worries.

[Pier Fumagalli]

Merging user accounts for Ugo Cei (the reporter)