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Subject:    [ldap] Re: bulk delete?  [Virus checked]
From:       Peter Gietz <peter.gietz () daasi ! de>
Date:       2004-04-30 12:59:09
Message-ID: LYRIS-886202-717290-2004.04.30-08.59.33--ldap#progressive-comp.com () listserver ! itd ! umich ! edu
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Norbert Klasen wrote:

> 
> 
> --On Donnerstag, 29. April 2004 19:46 +0200 Michael Ströder 
> <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
> 
> > I vaguely remember that there are some vendors who have implemented
> > recursive deletion with custom extended LDAPv3 controls.
> 
> 
> e.g.: Active Directory supports a TREE_DELE control. see
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ldap/ldap/ldap_server_tree_delete_oid.asp> \
>  
> 
> Norbert

Yes and this control was documenetd in the IETF draft, Michael was 
referring to. The last version of this draft is 
http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-armijo-ldap-treedelete-02.txt 
from August 24, 2000. I think it would be worth it to continue work on 
this since the server could very well implement a much more performant 
tree delete than a recursive client could ever do - similiar is BTW true 
for modifyDN operations on non-leaves. The above mentioned Draft IMHO 
needs a number of enhancements, e.g. it should be possible (like in 
Michael's web2ldap) to specify in the treedelete request whether the 
delete should include the basedn entry of the subtree or not. The 
respective response could include the number of deleted entries, etc. 
Only because Active Directory implemented this very lightweight version 
of treedelete, it does not mean that a future respective LDAPv3 standard 
could not be a bit more elaborate.

My 2 cent,

Peter

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