Re: [provision] Capability specific search clauses...

[Gary P Cole <Gary.P.Cole@Sun.COM>]

1. Do we really need to define additional search clauses in each 
capability? What would these look like?

2. Is there some way we could A) use some syntax (or a clause that is 
defined in the Search Capability) to indicate that the requestor wants 
to search on capabilityData and then B) use a <select> element to 
express the condition?

Bohren, Jeffrey wrote:

> My proposal for adding the ability to search on capability specific 
> information (e.g. references, active status, ect) is to add three 
> Boolean clauses to the search capability:
>
> spmlsearch:and
>
> spmlsearch:or
>
> spmlsearch:not
>
> Additional search clauses would be added to appropriate capabilities 
> such as:
>
> spmlsuspend:isActive
> spmlrefernce:hasReference
>
> To see how this would work, searching for suspended accounts on target 
> “target1”. Without this feature, to search for all suspended PSOs 
> (using the DSML profile):
>
> <spmlsearch:searchRequest>
>
> <spmlsearch:query scope="subTree">
>
> <spmlsearch:baseTargetId ID="target1"/>
>
> <spmlsearch:select>
>
> <dsml:filter><dsml:equalityMatch 
> name="status">suspended</dsml:equalityMatch></dsml:filter>
>
> </spmlsearch:select>
>
> </spmlsearch:query>
>
> </spmlsearch:searchRequest>
>
> There are two drawbacks; 1) the query is profile specific and 2) it 
> requires out of band agreement on what the status attribute is and 
> what possible values it may have. If instead we use an "isActive" 
> query from the suspend capability:
>
> <spmlsearch:searchRequest>
>
> <spmlsearch:query scope="subTree">
>
> <spmlsearch:baseTargetId ID="target1"/>
>
> <spmlsearch:select>
>
> <spmlsearch:not>
>
> <spmlsuspend:isActive>
>
> </spmlsearch:not>
>
> </spmlsearch:select>
>
> </spmlsearch:query>
>
> </spmlsearch:searchRequest>
>
> To find inactive accounts with the first name "John":
>
> <spmlsearch:searchRequest>
>
> <spmlsearch:query scope="subTree">
>
> <spmlsearch:baseTargetId ID="target1"/>
>
> <spmlsearch:select>
>
> <spmlsearch:and>
>
> <spmlsearch:not>
>
> <spmlsuspend:isActive>
>
> </spmlsearch:not>
>
> <dsml:filter><dsml:substrings 
> name="sn"><dsml:final>john</dsml:final></dsml:substrings></dsml:filter>
>
> </spmlsearch:and>
>
> </spmlsearch:select>
>
> </spmlsearch:query>
>
> </spmlsearch:searchRequest>
>
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>
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>
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>
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