Re: deleting entries...

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

On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 05:24:34PM +0100, John Berthels wrote:
> 
> > 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 hope to be that person.

> > > >       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.

Veru old. It went in version 0.16, which was when I changed from Convert::BER
to Convert::ASN1

> > > 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.

But not existing may not be the only reason for failure.

Graham.