Introduction

This page describes the way we generate reverse LDIF, for each operations. Reverse LDIF can be applied on a server in order to revert some changes done. The only condition is that they must be played in the exact reverse order.

Prerequisite

Each reverse LDIF must contains a revision number which identify uniquely its order : R-ldif-rev.

Operations

Here are the operations we are considering :

AddRequest

Computing the revert LDIF for an AddRequest is easy : it's a DelRequest where we use the DN of the created entry

DelRequest

To produce a revert LDIF for a DelRequest, we must first read the deleted attribute. We will create a Add Request based on the read deleted entry :

  read the entry to be deleted
  create a revert ldif AddRequest with this deleted entry
  delete the entry