[#DIRSERVER-445] Let users can choose an ApacheDS instance by specifying instance ID in a URL instead of Configuration object.

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Let users can choose an ApacheDS instance by specifying instance ID in a URL instead of Configuration object.

Created: 06/Oct/05 06:50 PM Updated: 21/Aug/08 04:38 AM

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1.5.4

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21/Aug/08 04:38 AM

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Even though we can specify an instance ID to select an appropriate ApacheDS instance via a Configuration object, this makes users have to be aware of ApacheDS-specific classes unfortunately. We could provide the better place to specify an instance ID - a URL.

The format of URL is TBD. Please let me know your idea by commenting here.

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Jacob S. Barrett added a comment - 07/Oct/05 01:41 AM

apacheds://<instance>/<base dn>

So for example if my instance was foo and my base was cn=bar:
apacheds://foo/cn=bar

I like this because if has the same look and feel as the LDAP url. I chose "apacheds" as the protocol section because we shouldn't use LDAP since this not using LDAP to access the context but rather some "internal protocol".

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Trustin Lee added a comment - 07/Oct/05 10:56 AM

It is a great idea. I agree with you totally. Thanks!

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Alex Karasulu added a comment - 07/Oct/05 12:47 PM

Alex Karasulu says: (11:35:37 PM)
   hmmm this is interesting one 270 .. I guess [it] is JNDI URL thingy with instanceID

Alex Karasulu says: (11:36:22 PM)
   will that have an effect on using URL if we move to making the provider URL a real url instead of a DN?

Trustin Lee at gleamynode.net says: (11:36:56 PM)
   Hmm.. not sure.

Alex Karasulu says: (11:37:07 PM)
   something to think about I guess

Trustin Lee at gleamynode.net says: (11:37:07 PM)
   But using URL is better choice imho.

Alex Karasulu says: (11:37:13 PM)
   yeah I think so too

Trustin Lee at gleamynode.net says: (11:37:22 PM)
   because the property name is 'provider url'

Trustin Lee at gleamynode.net says: (11:37:25 PM)
   it should be a URL.

Trustin Lee at gleamynode.net says: (11:37:30 PM)
   Not just a DN.

Alex Karasulu says: (11:37:33 PM)
   I was going to look into that later for 0.9.4

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we need to think more about this one

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Emmanuel Lecharny added a comment - 09/Jul/08 01:26 PM

No time for this for 2.0. Let's try to dig the proposal for 2.5

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Alex Karasulu added a comment - 21/Aug/08 04:38 AM

No longer needed with JNDI out of the picture.