Eric wrote: > I would like to perform an action if and only if a database operation succeeds, You can do this. > as well as revert that database operation if the action fails. You can't do this. That is, you can't revert another prior operation. > From the documentation I understand I should wrap both in a transaction and implement it through these parameters: SLAPI_PLUGIN_BE_POST_MODIFY_FN, SLAPI_PLUGIN_BE_POST_ADD_FN, SLAPI_PLUGIN_BE_POST_DELETE_FN. > It might be possible, but you'd have to hack the database code in order to get all of your operations into a single database transaction. BE plugins are called inside the database lock, so you can be assured that your code will be called with the database in a consistent state, but you can't use them to add other operations to the transaction. > However I'm not sure how to write that transaction. Is there a code sample? How should I configure the plugin -- nsslapd-plugintype: postperation doesn't seem to be the right type... > > > -- > Fedora-directory-users mailing list > Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3258 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20080623/23d04b23/attachment.bin