Match an LDIF re-import on the entry's dn
Reported again by the submitter's colleague at LINET after #223 was closed: duplicate checking was implemented for vCard and never for LDIF, so re-importing an address book still leaves a second copy of everything. That was deliberate at the time -- the matching key was an open question I did not want to answer alone -- but the answer had already been given on #174 and I closed the issue without acting on it. The answer, in the submitter's words: an attribute that *can* change is fine, because it will not have changed between two imports minutes apart. An import is not a sync. That makes the `dn` usable -- it is the only identity the file carries, and Mozilla's schema defines no UID -- and it needs no guessing at all, unlike the name-plus-email fallback I had been weighing. So `uidFromDn` derives a namespaced, stable uid from the distinguished name, normalised for the case and spacing two exports of one directory differ in. A card the book already holds under that uid is updated rather than duplicated, merged the way the vCard import merges: what the file carries wins, what it does not mention is left alone. Reported as created and updated, which is the pair that was asked for. Three things worth knowing: Matching is per address book, so two customer directories that each hold a `cn=John Smith` stay two people as long as they are filed separately. Imported into one book they would merge, which is the one way this can be wrong and the reason the escape hatch is worth naming. The look-alike count stays, and now means something narrower: entries that `dn` matching could not catch -- one whose `dn` moved between exports, and anything imported before there was a `dn` to match on. Those are still only counted, never merged. A file holding two entries under one `dn` is malformed, since a directory cannot, and now becomes one card instead of two sharing an identity. FEATURES gains the re-import behaviour for both formats; it documented neither.
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@@ -724,6 +724,14 @@ JMAP Contacts and JSContact.
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title, nickname, web pages and the custom fields all come across. The import
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control takes either format and decides by what is in the file, not by what it
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is called.
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- **Re-importing updates rather than duplicates.** A vCard is recognised by its
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UID; an LDIF entry, whose schema has none, by its distinguished name. The card
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already here is merged with the file's version -- what the file carries wins,
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what it does not mention is left alone -- so a corrected export can correct
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what the first attempt got wrong. Matching is per address book, which is also
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how two directories that each hold a `cn=John Smith` stay two people. An entry
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no longer recognisable, because its `dn` moved between exports, is imported
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again and counted: *"3 of them look like contacts you already had."*
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[ldif-schema]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Mozilla_LDAP_Address_Book_Schema
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- **Directory lookup** through `Principal/query`, so colleagues on the server
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