Subject: LDAP Directory Object Model: rules of contents of an entry
Author: eLDAP
In response to: Who can acts as superclass or subclass?
Posted on: 08/02/2006 06:36:19 PM
The directory object model allows an entry to be instantiated from several object classes with the followings rules:
Structural Auxiliary ... Auxiliary
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Directory
Entry
An entry shall not belong only to abstract object classes;
An entry shall not belong to more than one structural object class (excluding its superclasses);
Besides being a member of the structural object class, an entry may be optionally a member of one or more auxiliary object classes.
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> On 08/02/2006 06:35:00 PM eLDAP wrote:
Abstract
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Abstract Structural Auxiliary
Structural
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Structural Structural Structural
Auxiliary
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None None None
As it can be seen from above:
An abstarct object class can subclass any type of class;
A structural object class can only subclass its own type;
An auxiliary object class can not subclass any type of class.
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