Re: Search

[Chris R. <chr...@ma...>]

On 28/2/03 8:38 am, Paul Connolly <Pau...@cp...> wrote:
> Try:
> 
> use Net::LDAP;
> 
> my $ldap = Net::LDAP->new('localhost', port => 389, version => 3);
> $result = $ldap->search(base => 'ou=People,dc=myorg,dc=net', filter =>
> '(myobj=myval)', attrs => ['dn']);

That will request an attribute called "dn" which is not present in any
standard object classes. (It is a very common misconception that an entry's
DN is held in an attribute of the entry itself!)

It is probably more appropriate to request *no* attributes back, which is
done by saying:

    attrs => [ "1.1" ]

That feature requires LDAPv3. The server will return one SearchResult per
entry, and each SearchResult will contain the entry's DN and no attributes.

This is a more appropriate search because it will reduce the amount of
network traffic in cases where there really *are* dn attributes in the
results! (There is a standard attribute called "dn".)

> print $_->dn, "\n" foreach($result->entries);

That's correct :-)

Cheers,

Chris