Netscape DIRECTORY SERVER 7.0 - PLUG-IN Manual page 22

Using Directory Server Plug-in APIs
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Deprecated Functions and Their Suggested Replacements
Table 0-1
Deprecated Function
The following functions that deal with bervals are deprecated and their use is not recommended. For each
deprecated function, you will find in slapi-plugin.h a corresponding function with a _sv extension that
uses Slapi_Values instead of bervals. The new functions are more efficient than the old ones.
slapi_entry_attr_merge()
slapi_entry_add_values()
22 Netscape Directory Server Plug-in Programmer's Guide • October 2004
The main header file is located here:
<server_root>/plugins/slapd/slapi/include/slapi-plugin.h
The location and syntax for the plug-in directives have changed. In the
Directory Server 4.x release, the
section of the
slapd.ldbm.conf
must add your
plugin
<server_root>/slapd-<instance_id>/config
refer to the Readme file located here:
<server_root>/plugins/slapd/slapi/examples/
Database plug-ins are not supported in this version of Directory Server. Be
sure to use the pre-operation, post-operation, and/or extended operation API
to register plug-in functions. Note that some code examples in this book are
yet to be updated to reflect this change.
To comply with Internet Protocol version 6, Directory Server plug-ins can
now use the
SLAPI_CONN_CLIENTEDADDR
parameters to allow plug-ins to recognize the IP address of the LDAP client
and server. These new parameters use the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR)
structure for storing the IP addresses. Because of this, the NSPR
PRNetADDr
files are shipped with Directory Server.
The NSPR API allows compliant applications to use system facilities such as
threads, thread synchronization, I/O, interval timing, atomic operations, and
several other low-level services in a platform-independent manner.
Several functions have been deprecated in this release of the Directory Server
Plug-in API. The deprecated functions are still supported for backward
compatibility. They are, however, not documented in this release. The table
below lists the deprecated functions and the functions you should use in their
place. If you need additional information on functions that have been
deprecated, check this file:
<server_root>/plugins/slapd/slapi/include/slapi-plugin-compat4.
h
directives were in the database
plugin
file. In this release of Directory Server, you
directives to the
dse.ldif
and
Suggested Replacement Function
slapi_entry_attr_merge_sv()
slapi_entry_add_values_sv()
file, which is located in the
directory. For guidelines,
SLAPI_CONNSERVERADDR