Re: chasing referrals

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

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 10:12:04AM +0100, John Berthels wrote:
> As regular readers of this list are probably aware, I favour putting code
> which may be of use to many/some applications into this (or another) API
> (preferably in a way which doesn't incur bloat for the common case if
> possible). 
> 
> This probably brings us back to the 'what is the best way to extend
> Net::LDAP' issue. Should we implement this as a subclass of Net::LDAP to
> avoid bloating the core API?

The problem with this is that you either create many sub-classes, which means any
user needs to create a sub-class of those if they want to use many, or
you end up with one big subclass, which will be bloated.

My suggestion I posted a few days back was something like

  use Net::LDAP::Extn qw(my_extension);

which looked for the named extension and loaded it. this would make the
method my_extension avaliable on all Net::LDAP objects.

> Could/should this same mechanism be used to chase continuation references?

Not sure, but maybe.

Graham.