Re: Net::LDAP->modify

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

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 12:01:22PM +0200, Roland Stigge wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> another one:
> 
> I'm trying to modify:
> 
> this works:
> -----
> $mesg = $ldap->modify("cn=onemore,o=epigenomics",
>                       replace => {'sn' => 'Jackson'});
> print "code: ",$mesg->code,"\nerror: ",$mesg->error,"\n";
> -----
> 
> but this way (another documented way for performing that):
> -----
> # ... binding ...
> 
> $entry = Net::LDAP::Entry->new;
> $entry->dn("cn=onemore,o=epigenomics");
> $entry->replace("sn" => "Jackson");
> $mesg=$ldap->modify($entry);
> print "code: ",$mesg->code,"\nerror: ",$mesg->error,"\n";
> -----

Actually the docs are bit ambigious here. But I would say that this
is not documented to work as you expect here.

Although what should work, and is documented is

  $entry->update($ldap);

The docs should clarify that if an Entry is passed as the DN only the DN is
extracted from it. This is the same for ant Net::LDAP method.

Graham.