Capability specific search clauses...

My proposal for adding the ability to search on capability specific
information (e.g. references, active status, ect) is to add three Boolean clauses
to the search capability:

 

spmlsearch:and

spmlsearch:or

spmlsearch:not

 

Additional search clauses
would be added to appropriate capabilities such as:

spmlsuspend:isActive

spmlrefernce:hasReference

To see how this would work, searching for suspended accounts on target “target1”.
Without this feature, to search for all suspended PSOs (using the DSML
profile):

 

<spmlsearch:searchRequest>

            <spmlsearch:query
scope="subTree">

                        <spmlsearch:baseTargetId
ID="target1"/>

                        <spmlsearch:select>

                                      
<dsml:filter><dsml:equalityMatch
name="status">suspended</dsml:equalityMatch></dsml:filter>

                        </spmlsearch:select>

            </spmlsearch:query>

</spmlsearch:searchRequest>

 

 

There are two drawbacks; 1) the query is profile specific and
2) it requires out of band agreement on what the status attribute is and what possible
values it may have. If instead we use an "isActive" query from the
suspend capability:

 

<spmlsearch:searchRequest>

            <spmlsearch:query
scope="subTree">

                        <spmlsearch:baseTargetId
ID="target1"/>

                        <spmlsearch:select>

                                    <spmlsearch:not>

                                                <spmlsuspend:isActive>

                                    </spmlsearch:not>

                        </spmlsearch:select>

            </spmlsearch:query>

</spmlsearch:searchRequest>

 

To find inactive accounts with the first name
"John":

 

 

<spmlsearch:searchRequest>

            <spmlsearch:query
scope="subTree">

                        <spmlsearch:baseTargetId
ID="target1"/>

                        <spmlsearch:select>

                                    <spmlsearch:and>

                                                <spmlsearch:not>

                                                            <spmlsuspend:isActive>

                                                </spmlsearch:not>

                                                <dsml:filter><dsml:substrings 
name="sn"><dsml:final>john</dsml:final></dsml:substrings></dsml:filter>

                                    </spmlsearch:and>

                        </spmlsearch:select>

            </spmlsearch:query>

</spmlsearch:searchRequest>

 

 

  
  
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