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Eduardo
Eduardo

Reputation: 2341

LDAP full-text search

Is LDAP able to do full-text search?

Are there any implementations that keep a full-text search index and use it as some kind of query?

Should I use other protocol than LDAP if I want to do proper full-text search queries?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1189

Answers (1)

marc_s
marc_s

Reputation: 755128

LDAP doesn't have any fulltext search, as far as I know - it's not designed for that.

However, depending on your needs, maybe the Ambiguous Name Resolution (ANR) could help. Read all about it (for Windows 2000 LDAP) here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/243299

What it does is to allow you to define a part of your LDAP filter to be (anr=SomeName) and this "anr" value will be searched in the following attributes:

  • GivenName
  • Surname
  • displayName
  • LegacyExchangeDN
  • msExchMailNickname
  • RDN
  • physicalDeliveryOfficeName
  • proxyAddress
  • sAMAccountName

So while it's not strictly a fulltext search, you do get some of the benefits.

Upvotes: 4

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