Re: Net::LDAP::Util::canonical_dn

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

Chris Ridd <chr...@me...> wrote:
> Graham Barr <gb...@po...> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 12:00:19PM -0600, Clif Harden wrote:
>>> It may be the easy way out, but I think it is the best option. It gives
>>> the user the choice on how the data is present back to him.
>> 
>> I agree.
>> 
>>> > What default should we have? ;-) We'd want to preserve the existing
>>> > interface (I guess) so we need a default.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think the default should be the current way perl-ldap handles the
>>> data, encode => none.  If the user does not care about encoding no
>>> changes to his software would be needed.
>>> 
>>> If the user wants the canonicalizer, encode => canonical.
>>> If the user wants base 64, encode => base64.  Would this require the
>>> perl base64 module?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I have no idea how much coding work this would be.
>> 
>> 
>> this seems quite reasonable, and would not be too difficult to do.
> 
> OK.

I've added support for setting this behaviour in the constructor (and
documented it). The revised revised (:-) patch is attached.

Cheers,

Chris