Bug #58

Error modifying/deleting some attribute

Added by Jérôme Schell about 1 year ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:Closed Start:03/06/2009
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assigned to:Jonathan Clarke % Done:

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Category:Core
Target version:1.1.0
Problem in version:

Description

When trying to delete/modify the jpegPhoto attribute in LDAP, I get this exception:

Error while modifying directory on entry uid=marcel.bidon,ou=people / [Replace attribute: supannEtuID: 1116, Remove attribute: jpegPhoto: [B@7080ed90, Replace attribute: sn: Bidon, Replace attribute: cn: Marcel Bidon, Remove attribute: birthDate: 1986-12-29, Replace attribute: displayName: Marcel Bidon]
javax.naming.directory.InvalidSearchFilterException: [LDAP: error code 18 - modify/delete: jpegPhoto: no equality matching rule]; remaining name 'uid=marcel.bidon,ou=people'
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.mapErrorCode(LdapCtx.java:3018)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.processReturnCode(LdapCtx.java:2960)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.processReturnCode(LdapCtx.java:2767)
        at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.c_modifyAttributes(LdapCtx.java:1450)
        at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.ComponentDirContext.p_modifyAttributes(ComponentDirContext.java:255)
        at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.modifyAttributes(PartialCompositeDirContext.java:172)
        at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.modifyAttributes(InitialDirContext.java:153)
        at org.lsc.jndi.JndiServices.apply(JndiServices.java:519)
        at org.lsc.AbstractSynchronize.synchronize2Ldap(AbstractSynchronize.java:416)
        at org.lsc.SimpleSynchronize.launchTask(SimpleSynchronize.java:291)
        at org.lsc.SimpleSynchronize.launch(SimpleSynchronize.java:179)
        at org.lsc.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:128)
        at org.lsc.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:111)
Erreur rencontrée sur l'identifiant marcel.bidon:

This thread gives some hint about that but I don't really know how to implement this in Java.

Associated revisions

Revision 242
Added by Jonathan Clarke about 1 year ago

Fixes #58. Delete an attribute without specifying a value

History

Updated by Jonathan Clarke about 1 year ago

  • Category set to Core
  • Target version set to 1.1.1

Hi, and thanks for opening this issue.

The problem is a general one, and happens with other attributes that don't have an equality matching rule defined, like facsimileTelephoneNumber. See this blog post: http://gcolpart.evolix.net/blog21/delete-facsimiletelephonenumber-attribute/

I think this is a JNDI problem, that even when all values of an attribute are deleted, it still specifies a value list in the LDAP modify operation. Despite googling, I've never found a way round this...

I'm targeting this for 1.1.1, to get 1.1.0 out as soon as possible, and since this only happens on a limited number of attributes. However, if someone finds a fix for it, it's most welcome :)

Updated by Jonathan Clarke about 1 year ago

  • Status changed from New to Closed
  • Assigned to set to Jonathan Clarke
  • Target version changed from 1.1.1 to 1.1.0

OK, I did actually find this in the end. Turns out it was rather simple: you just need a ModificationItem set to REMOVE_ATTRIBUTE, with an Attribute object with no values...

Anyway, it works as of revision #242. Tomorrow's SNAPSHOT will solve this.

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