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- Network Working Group T. Howes
- Request for Comments: 1960 University of Michigan
- Obsoletes: 1558 June 1996
- Category: Standards Track
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- A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters
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- Status of this Memo
-
- This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
- Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
- improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
- Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
- and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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- 1. Abstract
-
- The Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) [1] defines a
- network representation of a search filter transmitted to an LDAP
- server. Some applications may find it useful to have a common way of
- representing these search filters in a human-readable form. This
- document defines a human-readable string format for representing LDAP
- search filters.
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- 2. LDAP Search Filter Definition
-
- An LDAP search filter is defined in [1] as follows:
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- Filter ::= CHOICE {
- and [0] SET OF Filter,
- or [1] SET OF Filter,
- not [2] Filter,
- equalityMatch [3] AttributeValueAssertion,
- substrings [4] SubstringFilter,
- greaterOrEqual [5] AttributeValueAssertion,
- lessOrEqual [6] AttributeValueAssertion,
- present [7] AttributeType,
- approxMatch [8] AttributeValueAssertion
- }
-
- SubstringFilter ::= SEQUENCE {
- type AttributeType,
- SEQUENCE OF CHOICE {
- initial [0] LDAPString,
- any [1] LDAPString,
- final [2] LDAPString
- }
- }
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- AttributeValueAssertion ::= SEQUENCE {
- attributeType AttributeType,
- attributeValue AttributeValue
- }
-
- AttributeType ::= LDAPString
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- AttributeValue ::= OCTET STRING
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- LDAPString ::= OCTET STRING
-
- where the LDAPString above is limited to the IA5 character set. The
- AttributeType is a string representation of the attribute type name
- and is defined in [1]. The AttributeValue OCTET STRING has the form
- defined in [2]. The Filter is encoded for transmission over a
- network using the Basic Encoding Rules defined in [3], with
- simplifications described in [1].
-
- 3. String Search Filter Definition
-
- The string representation of an LDAP search filter is defined by the
- following grammar. It uses a prefix format.
-
- <filter> ::= '(' <filtercomp> ')'
- <filtercomp> ::= <and> | <or> | <not> | <item>
- <and> ::= '&' <filterlist>
- <or> ::= '|' <filterlist>
- <not> ::= '!' <filter>
- <filterlist> ::= <filter> | <filter> <filterlist>
- <item> ::= <simple> | <present> | <substring>
- <simple> ::= <attr> <filtertype> <value>
- <filtertype> ::= <equal> | <approx> | <greater> | <less>
- <equal> ::= '='
- <approx> ::= '~='
- <greater> ::= '>='
- <less> ::= '<='
- <present> ::= <attr> '=*'
- <substring> ::= <attr> '=' <initial> <any> <final>
- <initial> ::= NULL | <value>
- <any> ::= '*' <starval>
- <starval> ::= NULL | <value> '*' <starval>
- <final> ::= NULL | <value>
-
- <attr> is a string representing an AttributeType, and has the format
- defined in [1]. <value> is a string representing an AttributeValue,
- or part of one, and has the form defined in [2]. If a <value> must
- contain one of the characters '*' or '(' or ')', these characters
- should be escaped by preceding them with the backslash '\' character.
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- Note that although both the <substring> and <present> productions can
- produce the 'attr=*' construct, this construct is used only to denote
- a presence filter.
-
- 4. Examples
-
- This section gives a few examples of search filters written using
- this notation.
-
- (cn=Babs Jensen)
- (!(cn=Tim Howes))
- (&(objectClass=Person)(|(sn=Jensen)(cn=Babs J*)))
- (o=univ*of*mich*)
-
- 5. Security Considerations
-
- Security considerations are not discussed in this memo.
-
- 6. Bibliography
-
- [1] Yeong, W., Howes, T., and S. Kille, "Lightweight
- Directory Access Protocol", RFC 1777, March 1995.
-
- [2] Howes, R., Kille, S., Yeong, W., and C. Robbins, "The String
- Representation of Standard Attribute Syntaxes", RFC 1778,
- March 1995.
-
- [3] Specification of Basic Encoding Rules for Abstract Syntax
- Notation One (ASN.1). CCITT Recommendation X.209, 1988.
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- 7. Author's Address
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- Tim Howes
- University of Michigan
- ITD Research Systems
- 535 W William St.
- Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943
- USA
-
- Phone: +1 313 747-4454
- EMail: tim@umich.edu
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