[Mageia-webteam] [Bug 998] O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Wed Oct 5 13:46:49 CEST 2011

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=998
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+Buchan Milne <bgmilne at zarb.org> changed:
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+--- Comment #10 from Buchan Milne <bgmilne at zarb.org> 2011-10-05 15:46:48 CEST ---
+> Country/city can already be done with localityName and countryName, but no
+> schema seems to use it so far.
+
+'l' is an alias for 'localityName', and organisationalPerson->inetOrgPerson has
+it. They also have 'st' for 'state' and 'postalCode'
+
+It would be relatively easy to add support for additional attributes to hold
+locality data (e.g. adding contryName or 'c' is relatively trivial).
+
+To do it properly, we should request an enterprise number from IANA so we can
+have viable schema definitions (that can be published).
+
+The biggest issue is how to store coordinates, e.g. as as plain string, or as
+attributes dedicated for longitude or latitude (which impacts whether you can
+easily store multiple values).
+
+> Otherwise, yes, having a dedicated small db for this would make it. Do we need
+> more than these two relationships?
+>  * user lives in place (or even places but that makes it out of LDAP I think,
+let's keep it simple)
+
+Easy if we don't consider coordinates, we use a multi-valued attribute.
+
+'l' or 'localityName' is multi-valued.
+
+[bgmilne at tiger bgmilne]$ ldapsearch -LLL uid=bgmilne l 2>/dev/null
+dn: uid=bgmilne,ou=People,dc=ranger,dc=dnsalias,dc=com
+l: Cullinan
+l: Centurion
+l: Lagos
+l: Cape Town
+
+> * place has coordinates
+
+If you want to store one, no problem. Many options open, format being the
+biggest issue to worry about (decimal or not).
+
+If you want multiple ones, easy if latitude and longitude stored together as a
+single string, or using any other coding that results in unique strings.
+
+If you want to associate to localityName's, more difficult.
+
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