Attribute Aliases

[Bob G. <Bob...@kp...>]

I ran across an oddity in Net::LDAP (I think).  When I request the attributes for an object, if an attribute has an alias, I get the attribute name for some attributes and the alias name for others.

This  code snippet illustrates my problem:

 my $ent = $msg ->shift_entry();

 my @attrs =  ($ent -> attributes());

 foreach my $i (@attrs ) {
 	$val = $ent -> get_value($i);
   	print ("$i  -- $val\n");
 }

Prints -- 

objectClass  -- top
cn  -- Alex Y Young
sn  -- Young
givenName  -- Alex
uid  -- 2

My OID table data definitions:

commonName,cn:          attributeType.3 :,Y    :    :name
surname,sn:         attributeType.4 :,Y        :  :name

givenName,gn:           attributeType.42    :      ::name 

userid,uid:         pilotAttributeType.1    :CaseIgnoreString


Why do I get "givenName" and not "gn"; "sn" and not "surname"?    Why does $ent -> get_value("uid") return "2"; but $ent -> get_value("userid") returns undef?   What piece am I missing here?

I am also posting this off to the vendor of my LDAP server (Syntegra), to see what they can come up with.


Bob G
bob...@kp...