Re: deleting entries...

[John B. <joh...@ne...>]

> Not really, not any more. Yes I started it and I may have written most
> of whats there. But I see most of it's future development coming
> from others, hopefully I can be a good guide in the process.

Yes. Someone needs to enforce taste and decency otherwise things become a
mess.

> > I'm not sure I'll easily do the ->save/load as non-recursive though.
> 
> Oh, I don't know. There is normally a way. But write it as recursive
> if thats what you feel most comfortable with. Someone with some spare
> time can always change it later. Often there is not much to change,
> notice I made little change to your code for the tree delete.

Yes. I'm sure its do-able, just not sure *I'll* do it easily :-)

> > >       unshift @dn, map { $_->dn() } $msg->entries;
> 
> No. base to ->search can be an Entry object. In which case ->search
> will call ->dn for you.

Hmm. Has that changed recently in CVS? I actually tried it and got a 'Bad
DN Syntax' error. But I was using an old version of Net::LDAP I think.

> > Or perhaps you mean:
> > 
> > 	unshift @dn, $ldap->list( $dn );
> > 
> > instead :-)
> 
> Maybe, but then I loose the Message, so I don't know if there are no
> children of if there was an error. I guess I could check $@.

Or save the original DN arg as $dn_orig and:

	return !$ldap->exists( $dn_orig );

at the end.

jb