Re: problems with resolving groups (rescursive)

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

On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:08:03PM +0100, John Berthels wrote:
> 
> > Yes. What I have been working on is a way to easily sub-class ::Search etc.
> > 
> > The problem is that they are created from within Net::LDAP itself, so
> > somehow we need to tell Net::LDAP to create different objects.
> 
> Taking a very quick peek, isn't this vectored through Net::LDAP::message
> already? Could the subclass override this method?
> 
> I guess it could get a little hairy, though.

Um, yes. I was writing that forgetting that I have already introduced
->message.

But it does not solve the problem.

What if a sub-class has more than one type of search, and wants to
use two different subclasses of ::Search to implement them.

I think adding a class option to the methods in Net::LDAP could help
solve this. In fact I think it is probably a better approach all around.

Those who simply want to subclass would do

sub search { shift->SUPER::search(@_,class => 'My::Search') }

instead of

sub message {
  my $ldap = shift;
  my $type = shift;
  $type = 'My::Search' if $class eq 'Net::LDAP::Search';
  $type->new($ldap, @_);
}


Which really does require a bit too much knowledge of the Net::LDAP internals.

Graham.