> On 21 Mar 2020, at 01:37, thierry bordaz <tbordaz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi William, > > I only have a vague knowledge of syntaxes/MR. > > Each syntax is a plugin. Its init function registers for a given set of OIDs the matching rules (compare, order, substring) than handle that syntax (calls slapi_matchingrule_register). > There is a special collation plugin that does the same for supported language. > So a entryUUID syntax should define its matching rules callbacks and register them for supported OID. > > The MR are called during filter evaluation, both at candidate list built and at filter match. > On write path, they are called to generate the index keys. > > I think there is a slight difference between syntaxes plugins and collation plugin in the way they are selected to apply for a given attribute. > syntaxes provide the set of supported OIDs while for collation you need to call the index to know if it supports the OID. > > All of this are general ideas around syntax/MR and I think they are quite correct. AHhhh, some of these things have helped me make sense of some of the plugin handle names and such. Thank you! I might put in a work-in-progress PR later of my work on entryuuid. :) Thanks Thierry! > > best regards > thierry > > > On 3/20/20 4:37 AM, William Brown wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I'm looking to add the syntaxes to handle entryUUID properly, because they have a different format to nsUniqueId. Thinking that I need to look at the plugins under ldap/servers/plugins/syntaxes/, but it would be good to have some extra insight about the plugin hooks. Should I look at the old plugin guide? Or is there some extra info I can get from somewhere? >> >> Thanks! >> >> — >> Sincerely, >> >> William Brown >> >> Senior Software Engineer, 389 Directory Server >> SUSE Labs >> _______________________________________________ >> 389-devel mailing list -- 389-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> To unsubscribe send an email to 389-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ >> List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >> List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/389-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > — Sincerely, William Brown Senior Software Engineer, 389 Directory Server SUSE Labs _______________________________________________ 389-devel mailing list -- 389-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to 389-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/389-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
