Re: chasing referrals

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

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:17:42AM -0500, Clif Harden wrote:
> The speed of the perl-ldap module has become an issue with some people.
> I remmeber several discussions on this list about it.  The more we bloat
> the code the worse this problem is going to become.  

This is true.

> If you can do this with a autoloading function that is compiled only
> when first called, then bloat is less a problem.

But it may not take much. If we can devise a message chaining scheme, then
that may be all that is needed.

A callback on a search can already detect if it has referrals, if it does
then it dould need to create the connection and chain in the response.

Right now the `naughty' way is to

sub callback {
  my ($mesg, $entry) = @_;

  if (my @refs = $mesg->referrals) {
    $ldap = ... connect bind ...
    $mesg = ... do the search ...
    push @{$mesg->{entries}}, $mesg->entries;
  }
}

Graham.