Re: tree delete control

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:50:05PM -0700, Robbie Allen wrote:
> Active Directory supports the tree delete control, which was defined as an
> internet draft (draft-armijo-ldap-treedelete) but eventually expired.  It is
> pretty straightforward to use:
> 
> my $treedel = Net::LDAP::Control->new(
>                   type     => "1.2.840.113556.1.4.805",
>                   value    => '',
>                   critical => 0,
>                );
> $rc = $ldap->delete($dn_to_delete, control => [ $treedel ]);

Actually you can just do

  $rc = $ldap->delete($dn_to_delete, control => { type => LDAP_CONTROL_TREE_DELETE });

> And I could make an Net::LDAP::Control::TreeDelete module out of it.  Just
> wanted to check first to see if anyone would object since it is not defined
> in an RFC (yet).

Fine by me.

At some point I plan to have classes for all common controls that are defined
by the most popular servers.

Graham.