Re: ldap->ping?

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

On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 09:33:18PM -0500, Mark Wilcox wrote:
> What's listed here needs to be split into 2 objects.
> 
> To test for connectity, it could be Net::LDAP::isUp($ldap,[callback =>
> \&callback]). by default it could try with anonymous bind. $ldap is an open
> Net::LDAP connection. callback is an user defined function to determine LDAP
> connection status.

I think I would like to keep it called `ping'

> As for things like what supported version,SASL,controls, etc. This all should
> be in the server's root DSE (assuming it's LDAP 3, but an LDAP 2 server can't
> give you this info).
> 
> Thus we could have an object like Net::LDAP::DSE.
> 
> You could get it by calling:
> my $dse = $ldap->get_dse();
> 
> this could have methods like this:
> $dse->version() #returns version
> $dse->sasl() #returns an array of SASL elements
> $dse->schema() #returns an array of names of schema entries
> $dse->controls() #returns array of OIDS of supported controls
> $dse->contexts() #return an array of contexts on the server
> $dse->get("dse attribute") #returns an array of elements that for the attribute
> passed to get

I like this idea. And as root_dse already returns an entry and Net::LDAP::DSE
could just be a subclass of Net::LDAP::Entry it would also be backwards compatable.

Graham.