Alias Problem

• Key: DIRSERVER-752
• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Alex Karasulu
• Reporter: mbah tenjoh-okwen
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0, 1.0

Description

    hello
     I would like to know if apacheDS supports aliasing and if so what do I need to do in other to add a
    sub context of object class type "alias". Each time I try to add one I get an error report. I use JNDI and so the error i get is of type javax.naming.NamingException .
    I will appreciate your help
    thanks

Comments

[Stefan Zoerner]

Type "Test" is not appropriate here, I have modified it to "Bug", because the user reported an error he gets.

The information the reporter provieded is not sufficient to help. At least a JNDI source code fragment is needed (what exactly has been tried to create an alias), and a stack trace would be helpful as well.

ApacheDS does support alias entries, btw.

[Stefan Zoerner]

Here is a JUnit test, which tries to add the following to the directory (below dc=example,dc=com). It fails on ApacheDS 1.0 RC4.

---
dn: ou=favorite,dc=example,dc=com
ou: favorite
objectclass: organizationalUnit
objectclass: top

dn: ou=bestFruit,dc=example,dc=com
aliasedobjectname: ou=favorite,dc=example,dc=com
ou: bestFruit
objectclass: alias
objectclass: top
---

The test contains two cases. testAddAlias succeeds in adding both entries, but the deletion afterwards fails. testAddAliasInContainer creates a container entry below the suffix and tries to add the entry and the alias within this container. Here, already the creation of the alias fails.

Both test cases pass IBM Tivoli Directory Server 6.0, but fail on OpenLDAP and Sun Java System Directory Server due to Schema vialations. Thus, I am not sure whether the test is valid.

[Alex Karasulu]

Committed revision 451847 for 1.0 here:

   http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=451847

Committed revision 451848 for 1.1 here:

   http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=451848