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Integer Attribute Syntax

Note: this component is designated "advanced", which means that objects of this type are not expected to be created or altered in most environments. If you believe that such a change is necessary, you may want to contact support in order to understand the potential impact of that change.

The Integer Attribute Syntax defines a syntax for attribute values that represent integer values. Values may be positive or negative, and may be of any magnitude.

Parent Component
Properties
dsconfig Usage

Parent Component

The Integer Attribute Syntax component inherits from the Attribute Syntax

Properties

The properties supported by this managed object are as follows:


Basic Properties: Advanced Properties:
↓ enabled ↓ enable-compaction
↓ include-attribute-in-compaction
↓ exclude-attribute-from-compaction
↓ require-binary-transfer

Basic Properties

enabled

Description
Indicates whether the Attribute Syntax is enabled.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-Valued
No
Required
Yes
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action


Advanced Properties

enable-compaction (Advanced Property)

Description
Indicates whether values of attributes with this syntax should be compacted when stored in a local DB database. Compacted attribute values may consume less space on disk and in memory, but it is possible that the compaction performed by some attribute syntaxes may result in values that are logically equivalent to the original values but differ in some cosmetic manner (e.g., different capitalization, loss of insignificant spaces, etc.). If client applications are not tolerant of this possibility, then it is recommended that compaction be disabled for attribute syntaxes that are known to have the possibility of introducing such cosmetic differences.
Changes to compaction settings will take effect for subsequent writes performed in the server. If you wish to have the changes applied immediately, you may export the data to LDIF and re-import, or you may use the re-encode entries task.
If compaction is enabled, then by default all attributes with this syntax will be compacted, unless one or more values are specified for either include-attribute-in-compaction or exclude-attribute-from-compaction.
Default Value
false
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
Compaction should only be enabled for a server with existing data if you are certain that all existing integer values conform to the syntax, because there is a very slight chance that certain non-conforming data could be incorrectly identified as having been compacted. If there is a chance that existing data could violate the syntax (which could be the case if the invalid-attribute-syntax-behavior global configuration property has been set to "accept" or "warn" at any time), then it is recommended that the data be exported to LDIF before enabling compaction and then importing that data after compaction has been enabled.

include-attribute-in-compaction (Advanced Property)

Description
Specifies the specific attributes (which should be associated with this syntax) whose values should be compacted. If one or more include attributes are specified, then only those attributes will have their values compacted. If not set then all attributes will have their values compacted. The exclude-attribute-from-compaction property takes precedence over this property.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
A string
Multi-Valued
Yes
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

exclude-attribute-from-compaction (Advanced Property)

Description
Specifies the specific attributes (which should be associated with this syntax) whose values should not be compacted. If one or more exclude attributes are specified, then values of those attributes will not have their values compacted. This property takes precedence over the include-attribute-in-compaction property.
Default Value
None
Allowed Values
A string
Multi-Valued
Yes
Required
No
Admin Action Required
None. Modification requires no further action

require-binary-transfer (Advanced Property)

Description
Indicates whether values of this attribute are required to have a "binary" transfer option as described in RFC 4522. Attributes with this syntax will generally be referenced with names including ";binary" (e.g., "userCertificate;binary").
Default Value
false
Allowed Values
true
false
Multi-Valued
No
Required
No
Admin Action Required
The Directory Server must be restarted for changes to this setting to take effect. Changes to this property will take effect immediately for new attribute type definitions created after the change, but the change will not take effect for existing attributes with this syntax until the server is restarted.


dsconfig Usage

To list the configured Attribute Syntaxes:

dsconfig list-attribute-syntaxes
     [--property {propertyName}] ...

To view the configuration for an existing Attribute Syntax:

dsconfig get-attribute-syntax-prop
     --syntax-name {name}
     [--tab-delimited]
     [--script-friendly]
     [--property {propertyName}] ...

To update the configuration for an existing Attribute Syntax:

dsconfig set-attribute-syntax-prop
     --syntax-name {name}
     (--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}
     [(--set|--add|--remove) {propertyName}:{propertyValue}] ...