Re: Requesting individual schema elements

Vithalprasad Gaitonde wrote:
> Is there a mechanism by which an ldap client can request for a specific
> schema element (attributetype, objectclass etc) using the OID or the
> textual name of the element.

No.

> If not,
> 1. Should this be done by the matched values extension.
> http://sec.isi.salford.ac.uk/download/MatchedValues-06.txt. The draft
> has expired quite sometime bac.

This would be the right solution.

> 2. Can we consider special casing the schema search for assertions like
> attributetypes=<attrname or oid> to only return the matched value ?
> The 2nd option seems preferable.

Such a special case for matched values seems weird to me. You would have 
to implement something like match values anyway.

BTW: I somewhat understand why you're asking for such a feature. I 
thought about this too. But think twice whether your LDAP client 
application can really live without grabbing and parsing the whole sub 
schema sub entry. We could take this discussion elsewhere if development 
of schema-aware client applications is off-topic here.

Ciao, Michael.