Re: hash as multiple attrs value

[Chris R. <chr...@me...>]

Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
> 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.

Yup, you're right. Consider this a "Doh!"

Cheers,

Chris