RE: Search Method returns 0 results

[Rafael C. <Raf...@li...>]

Hi,
It's very strange that your code does not produce an API error. In fact, the
search method takes options in an hash form as its arguments, and you give
it a reference to a list...
I tried to do the same thing and I got an error saying that the arguemnt
expected was a list and I was giving it a reference.

By the way, try 2 things:

1) Always check the return status of your function calls. Si, check the
error status of the bind():
$mesg = $ldap->bind(.....);
die("Cannont bind: " . $mesg->error) if $mesg->code;

Do the same thing after your search:
$ldapSearch = $ldap->search(...);
die("Cannont bind: " . $ldapSearch->error) if $ldapSearch->code;


2) If this cannot help you to see what's happening, enable debugging (add
"-debug => 12" as an argument to the Net::LDAP constructor) and check the
messages sent and received to/from the server. If you still see nothing,
send the debug trace to the mailing list.


The version of the module is written in the file ..../Net/LDAP.pm

Rafael


-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Blackett [mailto:bla...@bi...]
Sent: vendredi, 4. mai 2001 23:36
To: per...@li...
Subject: Search Method returns 0 results


Hi there

As per the subject I am attempting to perform searches using the 'search'
method as per the code below:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Net::LDAP;
my $ldap;
my $mesg;
my $mbname = 'bill';
my $domain = 'projectshps.com';
my $ldapSearch;
my $ldapEntry;
$ldap = Net::LDAP->new('localhost');
$mesg = $ldap->bind( 'cn=Manager, dc=mydomain, dc=com', password =>
'mypassword');
$ldapSearch = $ldap->search([
        base => 'dc=mydomain,dc=com',
        filter => 'cn=*',
        attrs => [],
        scope => 'sub',
]);
print $ldapSearch->count . "\n";
foreach $ldapEntry ($ldapSearch->entries){
        print $ldapEntry->get('cn');
}
$mesg = $ldap->unbind();

This is producing one line of output, namely a 0 to indicate no results.

However when I type in the shell command:

    ldapsearch -D 'cn=Manager, dc=mydomain, dc=com' -w 'mypassword' -b
'dc=mydomain, dc=com' cn=*

this produces the pages of results I would expect.

I'm not sure what version of the package I have - it was there when I found
it.  I have had success with the other methods though, ie add, delete,
modify

Please help

Colin