[DIRSTUDIO-124] Add schema online modification

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.8.0
• Component/s: studio-schemaeditor
• Assignee: Pierre-Arnaud Marcelot
• Reporter: Stefan Seelmann
• Created: 04/Jun/07 22:16
• Updated: 28/Feb/12 01:32

Description

The current schema editor could create OpenLDAP schema files for ADS 1.0 or LDIF files with the entries for the dynamic schema of ADS 1.5. However the LDIF files are only helpful for adding a new schema, not for modifying an existing one.

It would be cool if the schema editor could provide a full roundtrip: Loading the schema from the directory, modiying it in the Studio and saving the modifications back to the directory.

There could be several ways to implement this:
(1) ApacheDS specific: Read/Write the ou=schema tree including support for the ApacheDS specific schema elements like syntaxCheckers
(2) A common way using JNDI as described here: http://directory.apache.org/apacheds/1.5/add-your-first-elements-to-the-schema.html#Addyourfirstelementstotheschema-UsingJNDItoaddtheschemaelementsprogrammatically or in the JNDI tutorial.
(3) The DAS?