Re: hash as multiple attrs value

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

On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:19:21AM +0100, Chris Ridd wrote:
> Werner Reisberger <we...@pu...> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 04:03:25PM -0500, Mark Wilcox wrote:
> >> The value of the hash would have to contain an array. 
> >> 
> >> like this:
> >>    my $array = ['value','value','value'];
> >>    or
> >>    $array->[0] = 'value';
> >>    $array->[1] = 'value';
> > 
> > OK, this way I could create several attribute/value pairs where the
> > attribute (key) doesn't change but I want to have several different
> > attributes in my hash. Example:
> > 
> >  dc => 'mydom.com',
> >  sn => 'Brown',
> >  cn => 'C B'
> > 
> > I want to put these attribute/value pairs into a structure (hash ...) and
> > supply this structure to the attrs method to avoid writing each
> > attribute/value pair seperately:
> > 
> >            $ldap->add (
> >                         dn   => $dn,
> >                         attrs => [%myhash] );               
> > 
> > I used an array of anonymous hashes and an array and a hash within the 
> > anonymous array. First case doesn't work at all, in the last two trials
> > only  one attribute is added to the entry.
> > 
> >  Werner
> 
> Couldn't you just use:
> 
> 	$ldap->add (	dn => $dn,
> 			attrs => [ keys %myhash ] );

No, thats not right. Look at the example in the docs

  $mesg = $ldap->add( $DN,
    attrs => [
      name  => 'Graham Barr',
      attr  => 'value1',
      attr  => 'value2',
      multi => [qw(value1 value2)]
    ]
  );

This adds 4 attributes, each with a single value except 'multi' which has
multiple values.

So if %myhash has an entry per attribute. The values need to
be either the value (for single valued attributes) or a reference
to an array of values (for multi or singled-valued attributes)

Graham.