Re: size limit

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

On 13/3/03 7:56 pm, Susan Aurand <sa...@ha...> wrote:
> When I enter    $ldap->search(sizelimit => 0)
> 
> I am receiving the following error message:
> 
> syntax error at phsmodify.pl  line 97, near ")

I think you misunderstood Ian's suggestion. You need to *add* the arguments

    sizelimit => 0

to the list of arguments you are already passing to search. For instance,

    $res = $ldap->search(base => 'o=My School,c=US',
                         scope => 'subtree',
                         filter => '(uid=*)',
                         sizelimit => 0);


> Execution of phsmodify.pl  aborted due to compilation errors. I have typed
> actually what is shown
> above. I don't see anything wrong with it. What version of perl-ldap are you

Missing semi-colon after the close parenthesis, I'd suspect.

> running?  The server
> limit seems find. If I go into my GQ Ldap Client on the desk top, I can do a
> search uid=* and all
> 1055 entries show. Anyways, any suggestions on the error?

Maybe GQ is using a mechanism like paged results or VLV to do this.

Directories weren't originally designed to let you grab *everything* from
them at once, in fact they were designed to prevent you from doing that
using the sizelimit mechanism. (The idea being to stop spammers simply
asking for all the email addresses in a directory.)

However certain cases do require the directory to return lots of results,
but not all at once. Instead, some directories support being asked for lots
of stuff back, but in chunks at a time. That's called paged results, and
there's something similar called virtual list views. Not all directory
servers support these. Perl-ldap is capable of requesting paged results and
VLV; see the manual pages for Net::LDAP::Control::Paged and
Net::LDAP::Control::VLV.

Cheers,

Chris