filter string to BER?

[Yary H. <ya...@ap...>]

Once upon a time my LDAP server used Net::LDAP::BER->read to get and
parse binary data all at once.  It then used the "tag" and "decode"
methods to see what it had to do.

Now I'm converting to an OpenLDAP server w/a perl backend. The filter
is passed as a flat string.  I see that Net::LDAP::Filter will parse
the string for me- but after that, I'm lost. What do I do with the
Filter object?  I would like to turn it into a BER object so I can
re-use my code, but if there was any other way to traverse the tree
I can use that too.

I could use the internal representation of the Filter object, looks
pretty straightforward, but don't want to be doing something undocumented
that could break.

-y

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