Re: requestIDs and other topics

[Christine Tomlinson <chris.tomlinson@sun.com>]

John McGarvey wrote:

> The schema Christine proposes looks good to me, and captures the idea of my
> previous note.  A clarification on the text below:
>
>  >> The intent is that an application of DSML v2 MAY associate a requestID
> assigned by the application with a given request and the implementation of
> DSML v2 will then include that requestID element in any and all responses
> associated with the request.
>
> I would word this as follows: If a DSML v2 implementation receives a
> request with a specified request ID, it MUST include that requestID element
> in any and all responses associated with the request.

+1

> Also, a suggested addition: If LDAPBatchRequestEnvelope and
> LDAPBatchResponseEnvelope are used, it is reasonable to associate the
> requestID with the batch request envelope instead of with the individual
> requests it contains.  This would facilitate, for example, the posting of
> an LDIF batch update as enveloped in a batch request with a single
> requestID element.  I suggest that the LDAPBatchRequestEnvelope and
> LDAPBatchResponseEnvelope syntax should be changed to add requestID as an
> optional attribute.  If a DSML v2 implementation receives a batch request
> with a specified request ID, it MUST include that requestID element in the
> batch response envelope associated with the request.

+1

ciao,
Christine Tomlinson
Sun/iPlanet