On 4/3/2024 10:22 AM, Howard Chu wrote: > Jordan Brown wrote: >> Is there even a straightforward way in the protocol to get type information? >> If the protocol won't tell you, a client library can't tell you. > Any client can retrieve the schema definition of any schema element using an > LDAP Search request.
I had thought that all of those schema definitions were server-specific. But I see that RFC 4512 standardizes them. Thanks. So that would seem to be the answer to the question: if you want to know how to handle a particular data item, you need to query its schema. -- Jordan Brown, Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance, Oracle Solaris
