Re: passing dynamic attribute lists

[Mark W. <mew...@un...>]

The Perl [] syntax means an array refeference.

Thus you can also write it:
$attrs = ['cn','mail','uid']

and you can pass it to the search() method without needing a \ in front of
the variable.

I'm not sure how this is trickier than before?

If you already have a list of attributes as a hash, you can use keys or
values to get the attributes back as an array.

Mark

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Eric S. Johansson wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Harle" <ha...@us...>
> To: "Eric S. Johansson" <es...@ha...>
> Cc: <per...@ma...>
> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2000 2:03 PM
> Subject: Re: passing dynamic attribute lists
> 
> 
> > There are a variety of ways of doing this.  My preference is
> >   @base_attributes = (
> >                       objectclass => 'minimalRadiusPerson',
> >                       ServiceType => '2',
> >                       FramedProtocol => 'PPP',
> >                       FramedMTU => '1500',
> >                       AscendIdleLimit => '900'
> >                      );
> >        $ldap_res = $mast_srv->add ($dn,
> >                                    attrs => \@base_attributes
> >                                   );
> >
> > That is, using an array for the attribute list, then using a reference to
> > that array for "attrs".  Don't forget the \ before the reference.
> 
> I'm confused.  I thought that attrs => [] was a reference to a hash not a
> list.  Converting attributes to a fixed array makes things a little more
> tricky...
> 
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