Re: [Fwd] RE: Page or VLV control

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

It's OK I found it in the RFC, doh.

The cookie returned in the controls will be empty.

I think this just all shows that the API for controls is not yet optimal
and needs some work. THis is something I would like to discuss at the
perl conference.

Graham.

On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 10:26:53AM -0500, Mark Wilcox wrote:
> 
> sorry I don't. I couldn't find anything on the IETF site as well. I wonder
> if it's buried in a MS document somewhere, hidden by an NDA :).
> 
> But I
> did remember another argument for not including the paged-control in the
> search method, it's a proprietary control for Active Directory (this
> is perfectly legal LDAP, however ;). It will be
> replaced by the Virtual List View control in future versions of AD,
> because VLV provides everything Page control does, but it's being agreed
> upon by Netscape, Microsoft and Novell, thus should be more standardized
> across the board (I know Netscape already supports it, I think Novell
> does).
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Graham Barr wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know when a Paged search is complete ?
> > 
> > ----- Forwarded message from "Allen, Robbie" <ra...@ci...> -----
> > 
> > From: "Allen, Robbie" <ra...@ci...>
> > To: "'Graham Barr'" <gb...@po...>
> > Subject: RE: Page or VLV control
> > Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 12:49:13 -0700 
> > X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21)
> > 
> > Yep, that's better.  So here is the finished product that works for me:
> > 
> > #----------------------------------------------------#
> > use Net::LDAP;
> > use Net::LDAP::Control;
> > use Net::LDAP::Constant qw( LDAP_CONTROL_PAGED LDAP_CONTROL_SORTREQUEST
> > );
> > 
> >    ...
> > 
> >    $page = Net::LDAP::Control->new( LDAP_CONTROL_PAGED, size => 1000);
> >    $sort = Net::LDAP::Control->new( LDAP_CONTROL_SORTREQUEST, order =>
> > 'cn');
> >    @args = ( base  => "cn=subnets,cn=sites,cn=configuration,$BASE_DN",
> >              scope => "subtree",
> >              filter => "(objectClass=subnet)",
> >              control => [ $sort, $page ] );
> >    while (($mesg = $LDAP->search( @args ))) {
> >       print_subnet($_) foreach $mesg->entries;
> >       last if $mesg->count < $page->size;
> >       ($resp) = $mesg->control( LDAP_CONTROL_PAGED );
> >       $page->cookie($resp->cookie);
> >    }
> > #----------------------------------------------------#
> > 
> > The only question that still remains for me is the best way to determine
> > a Paged search is complete.  Above I just check to see if the mesg count
> > is less than the page size, but seems like there should be a more
> > intuitive approach.  The search inside the while clause isn't a good
> > check, because after the search completes, it starts over again from 1
> > (and continues), so the only way to break out of the loop is with the
> > 'last' call.
> > 
> > Thanks for working on this!!!  This is the critical piece I was missing
> > to start automating a lot of our Active Directory processes.
> > 
> > Robbie Allen
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Graham Barr [mailto:gb...@po...]
> > > Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 12:01 AM
> > > To: Allen, Robbie
> > > Subject: Re: Page or VLV control
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Ah, OK. Try this new patch
> > > 
> > > Graham.
> > > 
> > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 08:32:35PM -0700, Allen, Robbie wrote:
> > > > Works!  At least for Paged and Sort, haven't tried VLV yet. 
> > >  For some
> > > > reason, when I used both Paged and Sort together, I also 
> > > had to 'use'
> > > > SortResult.pm or else it complained that it couldn't find init:
> > > > 
> > > > Can't locate object method "init" via package
> > > > "Net::LDAP::Control::SortResult" a
> > > > t /usr/SD/perl5.004_05/lib/site_perl/Net/LDAP/Control.pm line 78.
> > > > 
> > > > Wasn't necessary though if I just used the Sort control by itself.
> > > 
> > 
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> > 
> > 
> 
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