Re: Async programming using Net::LDAP

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

This part of the API in Net::LDAP is incomplete, mainly due to the fact
that nobody has found a need for it yet.

But basically you must call select on the socket, as returned from $ldap->socket.

When there is data to be read, you must call $ldap->_recvresp, which will return
0 on success, or an error code.

Any outstanding operations will have thier callbacks called for each packet
received.

Graham.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 09:33:17AM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote:
> I must admit that I'm stymied.  I'm working with POE and Net::LDAP to
> build a proxy agent but have been unable to find a documented public
> interface that lets me tie Net::LDAP to any kind of async event manager.
> The best I seem to be able to do is create the Net::LDAP object with the
> async flag true.  Then some time later do a synch on the object hopeing
> that results are available. As might be expected the performance of this
> sucks.  
> 
> On the list archive from last year I see $ldap->socket used to get
> a socket handle that can be used in select. That method is still
> there. but still undocumented.  The recommendation then is to use
> a private method to retrieve the data.  Is that the best interface
> that exists for
> 
> I guess that if no other solution surfaces I'll remodel this to fork a
> process per client and do all actions synchronously.
> 
> Looking forward to any advice
> chris
> 
> --
>     Chris Fedde
>