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Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:50:23 +0530
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Subject: Re: Some thoughts I had under my shower this morning...
From: Kiran Ayyagari <kayyagari@apache.org>
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On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <elecharny@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> =A0On 8/6/10 10:45 AM, Kiran Ayyagari wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Stefan Seelmann<seelmann@apache.org>
>> =A0wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So we will have some potential issues with the LDAP API : as we now ha=
ve
>>>> a
>>>> schema Aware, we have to load the schema into a SchemaManager. Right
>>>> now,
>>>> all the schema is stored into a subproject (shared/ldap-schema) as LDI=
F
>>>> files. When we try to initialize the schemaManager, we first extract t=
he
>>>> LDIF to the disk.
>>>>
>>>> This is *very* bad ! When one will try to embed the API (in tomcat for
>>>> instance), one will face serious issues as the file system might not b=
e
>>>> writable.
>>>
>>> I think that is more worse when one wants to use the API as a client.
>>> IMO the usage of the API must be lightweight. If I startup my program
>>> to just do a search I probably don't want that a schema is loaded at
>>> all, because it is just too heavy. Can we have a DummySchemaManager
>>> implementation, that just does no validation and normalization?
>>
>> not really, we let schema manager use the in-memory LDIF loader
>> (JarLdifSchemaLoader) so
>> no files will be written to disk.
>
> Ok, so we are fine.
>
> However, we should have a mode where the SchemaManager is not even loaded=
.
> Be it a flag would be good enough.
by default the SchemaManager won't be initialized, user has to explicitly c=
all
connection.loadSchema(), till then the API will not be schema-aware.

Kiran Ayyagari