Re: Integrating Paged control into the search method

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

It should be integrated into the search method via a control as it is
now. The purpose of controls is to enxtend or enhance the functionality of
a particular LDAP operation. 

The biggest problem with this is that it makes your life easier because
you have a paged controls on your LDAP Server. But my server doesn't use
paged controls, instead it supports the Virtual List View control. 

In other words I think it's a bad idea because:
1) it violates the idea behind the use of LDAP controls
2) it makes the API harder to use
3) it makes the API less flexible

Now if you have a better idea about how to make controls work & you can
provide patches or code, I think we're all ears :).

Mark

On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Allen, Robbie wrote:

> Would it be feasible to merge the Paged control into the search method?
> Generally when I do searches, I want all the entries returned regardless
> of the server limit.  In fact, some searches I do today will get all
> entries, because the number returned does not exceed the server limit.
> One day that may not be the case.  I could see it as either being
> integrated into the current search method's or even a separate one.
> 
> $ldap->search( @args,
>                paged     => 1,
>                pagesize  => 1000);
> 
> $ldap->search_paged( @args,
>                      pagesize => 1000 );
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Robbie Allen
> 
>