[DIRSERVER-643] Netscape SDK: Adding an entry with two description attributes does not combine values.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-RC3
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-RC4, 1.5.0
• Environment: ApacheDS 1.0 RC 3; Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_04-b05); Microsoft Windows XP version 5.1 Service Pack 1
• Assignee: Alex Karasulu
• Reporter: Stefan Zoerner
• Created: 13/Jun/06 03:14
• Updated: 08/Aug/06 06:25
• Resolved: 06/Aug/06 17:17

Description

Here is a strange behavior, which I am only able to demonstrate with Netscape LDAP SDK for Java (or compatible APIs like Sun or Mozilla). I create an LDAPEntry with two separate LDAPAttribute objects for two description values in the LDAPAttributeSet.

...
LDAPAttributeSet attrs = new LDAPAttributeSet();
LDAPAttribute ocls = new LDAPAttribute("objectclass", new String[]

{ "top", "person" }

);
attrs.add(ocls);
attrs.add(new LDAPAttribute("sn", "Bush"));
attrs.add(new LDAPAttribute("cn", "Kate Bush"));

String descr[] =

{ "a British singer-songwriter with an expressive four-octave voice", "one of the most influential female artists of the twentieth century" }

;

attrs.add(new LDAPAttribute("description", descr[0]));
attrs.add(new LDAPAttribute("description", descr[1]));
...

After creation, the outcome is an entry within ApacheDS with only one of the description values:

dn: cn=Kate Bush,dc=example,dc=com
objectclass: top
objectclass: person
cn: Kate Bush
sn: Bush
description: one of the most influential female artists of the twentieth century

I attach the complete code as a JUnit test case. The code (and the test case) works with other LDAP servers (Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2 for instance) as expected (entry with two description values).

I was not able to create a comparable problem with an add operation with JNDI. I assume that the corresponding BasicAttributes class within JNDI and its LDAP provider combines/consolidates the attributes on its own, which results in one attribute with two values.

Issue Links

• relates to: DIRSERVER-700 Adding an entry with two description attributes does not combine values, if attribute values are seperated