Re: [Fwd] retrieve perl-ldap schema and ldap search

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

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Graham Barr wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Eric Zhou <eri...@ya...> -----
> 
> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 10:55:36 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Eric Zhou <eri...@ya...>
> Subject: retrieve perl-ldap schema and ldap search
> To: Graham Barr <gb...@po...>
> 
> hi,Graham:
> 
> remember I asked you an address the other day about
> two perl module. I am still not that far yet.
> I have been able to use ldap->add() and ldap->modify()
> function to do some simple stuff.
> 
> do you have some handy example of how to use
> ldap->schema to retrieve schema of ldap tree?
This should work:
my $schema = $ldap->schema(dn=>"name of your server's schema object");

To get information about the schema look at the documenation for
Net::LDAP::Schema.

> the other thing is that I don't quite understand 
> your ldap->search() doing. because I wish to search 
> and dn in the ldap tree and see if it is there before
> I insert it. do I suppose to use ldap->search() or 
> ldap->compare().
The simplest way to check for the existence of an entry is to do a search
(this is not a misunderstanding of Net::LDAP, just a misunderstanding of
LDAP ;).

Set your base to be the DN of the entry, scope of base and a filter of
"objectclass=*".
like this:
$ldap->search(
            base => "uid=mewilcox,ou=people,dc=unt,dc=edu",
            scope => "base",
            filter => "objectclass",
            );

if you get an error code of zero then the entry exists. If you get an
error code of 32 then the entry doesn't exist.

Mark

> 
> 
> thank you very much.
> 
> Eric 
> 
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