[CalendarServer-dev] Which openldap directoryservice to use?

[Eli Bach]

On Apr 15, 2009, at 9:57 AM, Morgen Sagen wrote:

>
> On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Eli Bach wrote:
>
>> Which is preferable to use from the CalendarServer trunk?
>>
>> This is for a CalDAV server, with users/groups/etc in an  
>> OpenDirectory server (accessed through DirectoryServices)
>>
>> twistedcaldav/directory/appleopendirectory.py
>> or
>> twistedcaldav/directory/cachingappleopendirectory.py
>>
>> Eli
>
> The appleopendirectory version is the one that's been around for a  
> while, so it's potentially more stable, but the startup time can be  
> long if your directory has a large number of users/groups (because  
> this code reads all directory records in from the OD server -- and  
> actually does this *per* calendar server "slave" process).  The  
> cachingappleopendirectory version not only faults records in only as  
> needed, but uses memcache to share those records amongst the  
> calendar server processes.  We are still evaluating the performance  
> benefits of this new version.  Note also that resource delegation  
> (being able to specify which users are allowed to be delegates for a  
> resource or location) is not yet supported in  
> cachingappleopendirectory yet.
>
> ~morgen

Does the trunk support (using appleopendirectory) support everything  
that the /branches/release/CalendarServer-1.4-dev version does, or  
should I switch to the release/1.4 code?  This is for a server that  
I'm putting into production for primarily Leopard/iCal and eventually  
Snow Leopard clients.

Eli