Add support for extended operations to the Core

• Key: DIRSERVER-678
• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ersin Er
• Component/s: core
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0

Description

Currently we have a few extended operations implemented within ldap protocol provider without hitting the core. An extendedOperation() method is defined in ServerLdapContext which currently just throws a NotImplementedException.

We need to determine out extended operation execution semantics and provide support for it in the core. A sample simple extended operation may also be implemented as a template.

Comments

[Emmanuel Lecharny]

Let's try to modify the implementation in 1.5.1 : it would be really cool if we can handle extended operation the way Ersin has implemented SP : by using java classes stored in the server This would help to add new operations on the fly, without having to modify the package.

We will have to seriously double check the class-loader...

[Alex Karasulu]

I know this has not been implemented and we should push this to another release. I will push it up one notch. This is a great idea btw and also note that we need a security manager for all this as well.

[Emmanuel Lecharny]

Postponed to 2.0. Not easy to implement ...