Re: LDIF use

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

On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:51:22PM +0200, Bouarich, Reda wrote:
> Actually i would like to open the change.ldif file to create the entries
> that are set in that file.

In other words you want to open if for reading like I said.

> I did concerning the write ENTRIES op.
> Hopw could i do?

If you want to add entries from an LDIF file

   $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new("/usr/reda/LDIF/change.ldif", "r" );
   $ldap->add($entry) while ($entry = $ldif->read);

Should work.

Graham.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Graham Barr [mailto:gb...@po...]
> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 12:42 PM
> To: Bouarich, Reda
> Cc: 'per...@li...'
> Subject: Re: LDIF use
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 12:29:35PM +0200, Bouarich, Reda wrote:
> > 
> > Hello everyone,
> > I'm trying to update my DIT using an LDIF operation:
> > i'mn doing like the following: 
> > 
> >  $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new("/usr/reda/LDIF/change.ldif", "w" );
> >   while( $entry = $ldif->write() ) {
> >          print " \n\n EN COURS EN COURS EN COURS EN COURS \n\n";
> >   }
> >   $ldif->done();
> 
> I think you have things backwards. You have opened the file for write (to
> the file)
> and are attempting to write nothing to it.
> 
> Did you mean to open it for read and call $entry = $ldif->read() ??
> 
> > but it doesn't seem to work, i have the following error message:
> > 
> > Can't locate object method "dn" via package "ENTRIES" at
> > lib/Net/LDAP/LDIF.pm line 167
> 
> Odd, LDIF.pm has no reference to ENTRIES. Did you perhaps pass the string
> 'ENTRIES' in
> as an argument to write ?
> 
> Graham.