Re: VLV Problems

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

A VLV control must be used woth a sort control. You may be able to detect this
in $mesg->code. But maybe not as the control is not critical so the server may
just ignore it.


Graham.

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 10:06:22AM -0400, David A. Pinkowitz wrote:
> I'm attempting to set up a virtual list view control, but I am running into 
> some problems.  Here is a code segment from some test code I am trying to 
> use just to make the initial search work:
> 
> --
> $vlv = Net::LDAP::Control::VLV->new(
>            before => 0,  # No entries before target entry
>            after => 2,    # number of entries after target entry
>            content => 0,    # list size is unknown
>            offset => 1,    # Target entry is the first
> );
> 
> $mesg=$ldap->search(
>          filter => '(&(|(|(sn=*) (givenname=*)) 
> (mail=*))(objectclass=person))',
>          base => 'ou=People,o=company.com',
>          attrs => $anonAttr,
>          control => [ $vlv ],
> );
> 
> ($resp) = $mesg->control( LDAP_CONTROL_VLVRESPONSE ) or die;
> $vlv->response( $resp );
> --
> 
> When I run this as is, the program dies with the second to last line.  If I 
> comment out the last two lines, I get a message "search failed with 
> 60."  If I take the control out of the search completely, my search works 
> correctly.  Any advice as to what I am doing wrong or how I might debug 
> it?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> David A. Pinkowitz
> UniPress Software, Inc.
> dpi...@un...
> (732) 287-2100 ext. 943
> 
> 
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