Re: server-less operation

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

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 07:31:21PM +0000, John Berthels wrote:
> > > This sounds like an excellent idea. But I think it should be a sub-class
> > > of Net::LDAP.
> > >
> > > In fact, if it was a package that understood the data structures
> > > passed to Convert::ASN1. Then it could have many uses.
> > >
> > > Your subclass you mention could just call it instead of encoding
> > > with Convert::ASN1. But we could also write a simple server that
> > > could be used for testing within the distribution.
> 
> OK. I was trying to avoid ASN.1 entirely. An outline of what I intended is
> attached. (Only enough implemented to demonstrate the concept I had in
> mind - the search implementation currently matches everything in the
> LDIF).

I was not suggesting that you actually use ASN.1, but the data structures
that get passed to the Convert::ASN1 module.

Then there is little work todo to create a subclass of Net::LDAP as you only
have to override the send/recv instead of having to reimplement everything

> The idea is that (whilst testing away from a server) you can instantiate a
> Net::LDAPL (poor name I think) instead of a Net::LDAP and still test your
> app.

Sure.

Graham.

> Anyone sufficiently interested in this for me to finish it?
> 
> regards,
> 
> jb