[DIRSERVER-1103] New human readable normalizers need to intelligently figure out how to handle byte[]s (Review needed)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.2
• Assignee: Emmanuel Lécharny
• Reporter: Alex Karasulu
• Created: 16/Nov/07 22:30
• Updated: 09/Jul/08 13:51
• Resolved: 01/Apr/08 21:51

Description

Looks like some of the new normalizers like this one do not know how to handle byte[]s. This is very bad and compare operations will all fail because these normalizers must be passed a byte[] by the compare handling of the server. Note that CompareContext uses a byte[] for the value being compared regardless of the human readibility of the attributeType's syntax.

Example referred to above:

http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=595845

Emmanuel can you take a look at this one for me or at least comment on it - I figure you know best the normalizer you added a while back. But however I wanted to also ask if there is a better way to solve this than I did above. I guess I can make the compare operation figure out what to give the normalizer. Anyways I think we're going to be in a great possition soon when we do all this Value and ServerEntry stuff - these kinds of problems will never happen again.