Re: filter string to BER?

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

Net::LDAP has not used Convert::BER for a long time, it changed to
Convert::ASN1 a long time ago.

The internal data-structure of the Filter object is the data structure
expected by the ASN1 encode as described by the ASN1 definition
in Net::LDAP::ASN

Graham.

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 03:19:43PM -0700, Yary Hluchan wrote:
> 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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