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Alex Karasulu commented on DIRSERVER-1104:
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You say,

"I would not do that right now as we will have a new sub-project (server-ent
ry) where we will have all those classes."

OK if that's the case I don't think we want to move this branch over into th
e trunk until this issue is completely fixed.  If there is some workaround t
o remove it then we should think of applying it.  The ServerEntry effort is 
dragging it's feet so I don
't know how much exposure we'll have with this problem.

> Mixing Attribute value types results in write failures
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DIRSERVER-1104
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-1104
>             Project: Directory ApacheDS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: core
>    Affects Versions: bigbang, 1.5.1
>            Reporter: Alex Karasulu
>            Assignee: Emmanuel Lecharny
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: bigbang
>
>         Attachments: error.log, offending.ldif
>
>
> This new bug is really serious and tricky. It has eluded us but comes out 
now thanks to a crazy size effect it has on Windows.
> First a characterization of the bug.  An entry (Attributes object) may be valid an
d still contain an Attribute which has both byte[] and String array values.  Som
e may suggest that this is invalid since attributes are, according to their syntax, 
either
binary of human readable.  However this is not the case.  The fact that an a
ttributeType is human readable has no bearing on how the user supplies the v
alue.  Human readable data can be provided as binary information so long as 
it still conforms to the sy
ntax of the attribute.[vbcol=seagreen]
> Here's an example entry which would cause such a failure:
>     dn: cn=person1,ou=system
>     objectClass: organizationalPerson
>     cn: person1
>     sn: sn_person1
>     seealso: cn=Good One,ou=people,o=sevenSeas
>     seealso::  Y249QmFkIEXDqWvDoCxvdT1wZW9wbGUsbz1zZXZl
blNlYXM=
> This entry will cause the AttributeSerializerUtils.serialize() method to blow a Cl
assCastException.  Note the log of the error can be found attached to this issue.[/v
bcol]

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