multi-modify

One of the features Symas built into its Connexitor software (back in 2000, based on OpenLDAP 2.0) was
the ability to perform modifications inline with a search request. Back then we used back-perl tweaked
heavily to accomplish it. Having an ability to do batch modifies would be pretty useful in
general. It's a feature that's commonly used in SQL as well.

One way to do this in modern LDAP would be to define a batchModify control, to be sent with a Search
request. The controlValue would contain a sequence of modOps, like a Modify request, but without the
rest of the request body. For each entry returned by the Search request, the modOps would be applied
to the entry before returning it. A response control would be attached to each entry, giving the
result code for the modification attempt on that entry.

Anyone interested in implementing this as an overlay?

-- 
  -- Howard Chu
  CTO, Symas Corp.           http://www.symas.com
  Director, Highland Sun     http://highlandsun.com/hyc/
  Chief Architect, OpenLDAP  http://www.openldap.org/project/