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

[Buchan Milne]

https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=998

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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