Re: Are type conversions necessary? (e.g. input is a string "1", but attribute in LDAP is typed Integer)

[Jim H. <ha...@us...>]

Net::LDAP will deal correctly with passing "100" or 100, since strings are
sent to the server anyway.
  --Jim Harle
  US Naval Academy


On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Economou, Matthew (GEAE, Cardinal Solutions) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a Perl script that takes a DN, attribute, and values to replace on the
> command line and executes the Net::LDAP::modify method with the specified
> arguments, e.g. (with error checking, binding, etc., elided):
> 
> $modifydn = shift;
> $attribute = shift;
> foreach $arg (@ARGV) { push @values, $arg; }
> $result = $ldap -> modify (dn => $modifydn, replace => { $attribute => [ @values
> ] });
> 
> All in all, it's fairly simple (the only big hang up I had was figuring out that
> the "@values" part required square braces).  My question regards type converting
> the @values list.  If the attribute that is being added/replaced is an integer
> instead of a string, do I need to walk POSIX::strtol over @values, or will LDAP
> or the module Do The Right Thing?
> 
> Kind regards,
> #\Matthew
> 
> 
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