183959 - LDAPDN.explodeDN() doesn't split RDNs separated by ';' (semicolons)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Directory Graveyard :: LDAP Java SDK, defect)

Description

[Sebastien Guillemin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

The LDAPDN.explodeDN() method doesn't split RDNs separated by ';' (semicolons).
RFC1485 specifies that "Semicolon (";") may be used as an alternate separator".
(even if it is not encouraged)

The source-code seems to confirm that, currently, only ',' (comas) are used to
explode the DN.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. myDN is a string that contains a DN using ';' as an RDN separator
2. LDAPDN.explodeDN(myDN)

Actual Results:  
the whole DN (unexploded)

Expected Results:  
exploded RDNs array

In the java source file netscape/ldap/util/DN.java, in the DN(String)
constructor, the condition :

if (buffer.charAt(i) == ',')

should, unless I'm mistaken, be replaced with something like :

if ((buffer.charAt(i) == ',') || (buffer.charAt(i) == ';'))

Comment 1

[Mark Smith [:mcs]]

This does sound like a bug. Reassigned to Miodrag.

Comment 2

[Frankie]

Spam for bug 129472

Comment 3

[Mark Smith [:mcs]]

Reassign LDAP JDK bugs owned by Miodrag ([e-mail]) to
E-Y ([e-mail])

Comment 4

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Not activity for at least 6 years, closing.