method result truth (was: Re: Access problem)

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

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:16:21PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 03:55:31AM -0700, Murugan K G wrote:
> > Hi  Chris
> >    Thanks for your immediate  response.
> >  I  am binding with LDAP3 only  as 
> > $ldap->bind('admin',password => 'novell', version=>3)
> > or die "Not able to bind";
> 
> bind, like most Net::LDAP methods, will always return true. You need to check
> the ->code method of the object returned.

Does anyone else think that this is such a common problem that we
should try to deal with it ?

We could deal with it by using overload on the message object, such
that on a boolean context it determines if there was an error.

Of course, you then have the issue of how does the library determine
when a result is an error.

Well my thought is that we could allow the user to pass a list
of acceptable result codes. By default LDAP_SUCCESS would always
be an acceptable result code, and compare would allow the TRUE/FALSE
result codes.

We could even make it honor the onerror argument passed to new

Graham.

PS: I have thought about this before and still have an old patch
somewhere that will do this.