Microsoft defined a Permissive Modify Request Control that relaxes
some constraints when your application performs a modify operation and
tries to add
an attribute that already exists, or to
delete
an attribute that does not exist.
if (isSupported(PermissiveModifyRequestControl.OID)) { final String dn = "uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com"; final ModifyRequest request = Requests.newModifyRequest(dn) .addControl(PermissiveModifyRequestControl.newControl(true)) .addModification(ModificationType.ADD, "uid", "bjensen"); connection.modify(request); System.out.println("Permissive modify did not complain about " + "attempt to add uid: bjensen to " + dn + "."); }
OpenDJ directory server supports the Permissive Modify Request Control:
Permissive modify did not complain about attempt to add uid: bjensen to uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com.