Re: how to handle connection to server if server runs away?

[Jonathan L. <jon...@le...>]

I would really like to write/help write a FAQ, any body up for it? 

It isn't very hard to accomplish this, I write wrapper function for all
the things I am doing on the LDAP directory. I have functions like ldap_search,
ldap_modify,ldap_exists . The first argument they all take it the Net::LDAP connection
object. Sample code: 


sub ldap_connect{
        my $ldap = Net::LDAP->new($LDAP_HOST) or die $!;
        $ldap->bind($LDAP_BINDDN, password => $LDAP_PASS);
        return $ldap;
}     

sub ldap_disconnect{
        my $ldap = shift;
        $ldap->unbind;
}       

sub ldap_modify{
        my ($ldap,$dn,$mods ) = @_ ;
        my $result = $ldap->modify($dn, replace => { %$mods });
        return $result;
}

If I had problem with timeouts, you would just have to come up with a heuristic
of checking if the server is alive ( I dont' think anything like $ldap->ping exists,
THAT would be cool ) and then do a check at the beginning of every function. 

 David Bussenschutt (d.b...@ma...) was saying:

> There seem to have been a few people interested in either reconnecting on
> time-outs, or getting past search-limits...both of which are optionally
> imposed by the server.  
> Since it's clear that Graham et al think it shouldn't be part of the
> library, rather a function of the application, does anyone who's done this
> sort of thing have sample code that they'd like to share...perhaps it could
> be added to the as-yet-nonexistant-but-hopefully-soon-going-to-be FAQ.??
> 
> David.
> 

-- 
Jonathan Leto
T3 Link Inc.
www.t3link.com