Net::LDAP questions

[<mur...@po...>]

Hi,
I find the Net::LDAP very helpful in my work, I have a couple of questions
though-

Q1. the structure returned by as_struct a bit cumbersome for my normal use-
use of the DN as a key, hashref to data in array even when only one value is
present.  I understand why it is that way, it is just over the top for the
data I am working with and I find myself looping over the results of a
search and dropping the returned values into a hash using the UID as a key
(I know this will be unique as it is an employee ID string)-

# this is what I am doing now-
sub get_ldap_data {
	my @attrs = @_;
	my $mesg = $ldap_obj->search ( 
		attrs => [@attrs],
		base   => "ou=people,dc=domain,dc=com,dc=au",
		filter => "(uid=*)",
	);
	$mesg->code && die $mesg->error;
	foreach my $entry ($mesg->all_entries) {
		$uid = $entry->get_value('uid');
		# etc.
		$highest_uid = $uidnumber if ($uidnumber > $highest_uid);
		@{$ldap{$uid}}    = ($uidnumber, .....);
	}
	return %ldap;
}

Is there any way to process the search results as they are found, this would
let me create my own structure on the fly and also enable me to look for
other conditions such as highest used uidnumber as I go, something like
	foreach my $entry ($ldap_obj->search()){
		....
	} 
Or is there a better way to approach the problem?

Q2. is there a way to get a search to halt as soon as an item matching the
search criteria is found?

Thanks for the help,
regards
Murray

--
Murray Barton
Unix Systems Administrator
Western Australian Police Service
Tel:  (08) 9222 1900
Fax: (08) 9222 1698


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