Entry Plug-Ins; Parameters Accessible To All Plug-Ins - Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 6.2 - PLUG-IN Manual

Parameters Accessible to All Plug-Ins

Entry Plug-Ins

The parameters listed below are used for entry store and entry fetch plug-in
functions. These plug-in functions are called by the server before writing an entry
to disk and after reading an entry from disk. Entry store and entry fetch plug-in
functions are passed using the string representation (in LDIF — LDAP Data
Interchange Format) of the entry.
NOTE
Parameter ID
SLAPI_PLUGIN_ENTRY_FETCH_FUNC
SLAPI_PLUGIN_ENTRY_STORE_FUNC
Parameters Accessible to All Plug-Ins
The parameters listed in this section are accessible to all types of plug-ins. The
parameters in this section are organized in the following sections:
• Information About the Database
• Information About the Connection
• Information About the Operation
• Information About Extended Operations
• Information About the Transaction
• Information About Access Control Lists
• Notes in the Access Log
• Information About the Plug-In
• Information About Command-Line Arguments
560 Netscape Directory Server Plug-In Programmer's Guide • December 2003
The Directory Server caches recently added and retrieved entries in
memory. The entry fetch plug-in function is called only when
reading the entry from the disk, and not when reading the entry
from the cache.
Description
This function fetches information that represents an
LDAP entry.
This function stores information about an entry
that was fetched by the
SLAPI_PLUGIN_ENTRY_FETCH_FUNC function.