[Fwd] Question relating to Net::LDAP 0.25

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

----- Forwarded message from Mark Prior <mr...@ia...> -----

Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 21:11:14 +0930
To: Graham Barr <gb...@po...>
From: Mark Prior <mr...@ia...>
Subject: Question relating to Net::LDAP 0.25

I am attempting to use Net::LDAP and I have run into a problem that 
I'm hoping you might have some advice on.

I am writing a CGI to allow our staff to modify their entries. I am 
pulling out the objectClass attribute from their entry and using the 
schema routine to display the attributes they can modify. Naturally I 
want to provide the existing data as the default and that is where I 
ran into a number of problems.

First of all I discovered that search returns the mobile phone 
attribute from the cosine schema as "mobile" but schema returns it as 
"mobileTelephoneNumber" (which I was expecting it to consider an 
alias). To try to work around that I was going to use 
Net::LDAP::Schema::item to grab the name of the attribute (which I 
was hoping would be consistent) but then I discovered that name2oid 
for telephoneNumber returned two oids (one for the syntax and another 
for the attribute). In the syntax case I would suggest that removing 
all spaces and lowercasing the value "Telephone Number" is a bad idea 
and at least replacing spaces with underscores would be better 
(although I haven't looked for other implications of that change).

Do you think that the first problem is a bug and if so can you 
suggest a fix. If  it's not a bug then any ideas on what I should be 
doing?

Thanks,
Mark.

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