Re: [Fwd] Documentation for Net::LDAP::Extension

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

Currently Net::LDAP only gives a skeleton access to the extended operation.

You must encode the value yourself and pass in with

  $mesg = $ldap->extension( name => $oid, value => $value);

Then you can call

  $mesg->response_name
  $mesg->response

to get the names and value of the response.

The intent is that as "standard" extensions get defined we would define
classes for them so that you could do

  $mesg = $ldap->extension( type => 'set-password', ... args for set password );

And the class of the object returned will be a sub-class of Net::LDAP::Extension
with methods that are of use to 'set-password'. We could even go as far as

  use Net::LDAP::Extension qw(set_password);

  $mesg = $ldap->set_password( ... );

Graham.

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 03:17:27PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 10:13:12 -0400
> To: gb...@po...
> From: Darryl C Price <da...@co...>
> Subject: Documentation for Net::LDAP::Extension
> 
> Hello Graham,
> 
> I am trying to figure out how to use the set-password ldapv3 extension but 
> can't find the documentation for Net::LDAP::Extension or any examples.  Your 
> help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> --Darryl
> Darryl C Price
> Conversant Systems, LLC
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