fetching the structure / obejctClass defs

[Michael Ströder]

Hans Aschauer wrote:
> I just took a deeper look at the sources, and 
> the code seems to look like hand-coded regular expressions.

Uurgs!

I'd like to see a base class for a LDAP syntax with a method 
validate() which is called when setting the attribute value. More 
or less like I'm doing form parameter validation in PyWebLib. Also 
one could emulate comparison of values by implementing __cmp__(). 
With such a vehicle it would be easy to implement new syntaxes by 
just implementing these two methods.

> BTW: Do you know of a more or less complete list of syntax descriptions? 
 > [..]
> many syntaxes there are BNF definitions (which is just fine), but 
> sometimes they reference material which I cannont find online (e.g. the 
> syntax for telefon numbers, 1.3.6.1.4.1.1466.115.121.1.50, is described 
> in E.123). 

You hit one of the famous problems in schema handling. The good 
news is that it seems you understood the problem... ;-)

 > I know sites like http://www.alvestrand.no/objectid/top.html

That's the best I'd come up with.

Ciao, Michael.