Re: unblessed reference?

[Daniel D. <da...@li...>]

When I remove the [$dn]  and replace it with $dn then my origional proble=
m of=20
the script hanging without an error happens again.

I'm stumped,

Dan


On Wednesday 26 March 2003 12:56 am, Chris Ridd wrote:
> On 25/3/03 8:57 pm, Daniel Davidson <da...@li...> wrote:
> > Thanks to the help of Chris, I am at least now getting an error messa=
ge.
> >
> > Can't call method "asn" on unblessed reference at
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Net/LDAP.pm line 354, <STDIN> line 5.
>
> That's because you used [ $dn ].
>
> > My code is nearly the same as it was in my last post:
> >
> > $ldap=3DNet::LDAP->new($server) or die "$@";
> > $ldap->bind(dn =3D> $rootdn, password =3D> $dnpassword) or die "bind"=
;
>
> The bind method returns a result object (like add, etc). You need to ch=
eck
> the result code in the result object to determine if the bind succeeded=
=2E
>
> > $result=3D$ldap->add(
> > dn =3D> [$dn],
>
> That should probably be just dn =3D> $dn; the arrayrefs I suggested bef=
ore
> are only needed for attribute values. Sorry I should have mentioned tha=
t
> too :-)
>
> The add method checks if the dn argument is a Net::LDAP::Entry object b=
y
> calling ref() on it, and if not constructs such an object. When you pas=
sed
> [ $dn ] this caused ref() to return true and the code assumed wrongly t=
hat
> it was a Net::LDAP::Entry. The error you quoted is because it then trie=
s to
> call the asn method on that "object", which in your case isn't one.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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