[Fwd] About Net::LDAP versions 1.19-1.22

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

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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 09:40:01 +0100
From: Marco Marongiu <br...@cr...>
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To: gb...@po...
Subject: About Net::LDAP versions 1.19-1.22

Dear Mr. Barr

My name is Marco Marongiu, I am a perl ``programmer'' from Italy :-)
I've been working on a web interface for some services on a directory
server based on OpenLDAP 1.2.11 on Debian GNU/Linux 2.11 and SUN Solaris
7 platforms.

I had really big problems in deleting attributes from entries. Since in
documentation I read

     modify ( DN, OPTIONS )
         Modify the contents of DN on the server. DN May be a
         string or a Net::LDAP::Entry object.

[...]
     add     The add option should be a reference to a HASH. The
             values of the HASH are the attributes to add, and
             the values may be a string or a reference to a list
             of values.

[...]
     replace The <replace> option takes a argument in the same
             form as add, but will cause any existing attributes
             with the same name to be replaced. If the value for
             any attribute in the HASH is a reference to an empty
             ARRAY the all instances of the attribute will be
             deleted.


But when I issued a request like

$msg = $ldap->modify($dn, replace => { attribute => [] }) ;

I got an error, and $msg->code returned 2. It turned out that the change
didn't take place unless the request was restated as

$msg = $ldap->modify($dn, replace => { attribute => undef }) ;

Did I go wrong? Or maybe is it a "bug" in documentation/module?

Thank you for all the work you've been doing for the perl community!

Sincerely
Marco Marongiu
CRS4 - Center for Research, Development & Advanced Studies in Sardinia

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